Five on Friday - October 27, 2023

Happy Friday!  Thanks for stopping in to see my Five on Friday.  Let's get right to it ~

1.  1989 - Taylor's Version

Taylor Swift somehow had time between attending all those Chiefs football games to get her latest album together.  1989 - Taylor's Version releases today!  This is her fourth installment in her re-records.  1989 originally came out in 2014 and was a blockbuster.  The standard edition will have 21 songs, including Shake It Off and Bad Blood.  There's a special Tangerine edition that will have an extra song.  I'm sure this album will be another blockbuster!

2.  Freelance

John Cena's newest movie opened today!  Here's the thing - this movie is getting some pretty bad reviews, but it's still on my list of movies I want to see.  The previews didn't look that bad to me and I really like John Cena, so...  Here's the summary ~

Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis (John Cena) is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington (Alison Brie) as she interviews the ruthless--but impeccably dressed--dictator, Juan Venegas (Juan Pablo Raba). When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other in order to make it out alive!

3.  Sisters Under the Rising Sun

New book alert:  Sisters Under the Rising Sun, by Heather Morris, came out this week.  This author also wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz and I really liked that book.  Now I have high hopes I'll love this book too!  Here's the summary ~

In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again.

Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed.

After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.

Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.

4.  Turkey Earrings

I know - we're not even through with Halloween yet and I'm about to tell you something you need for Thanksgiving.  But I think these earrings are so adorable and I'm afraid if you don't get them now they will be sold out!  I can't wait to wear mine!  They are made of high-quality tiny beads, and alloy materials, lead-free, durable, and comfortable to wear.  While you're getting a pair for yourself, remember to get a pair for a hostess gift too!

5.  Where did it come from?

Have a wonderful weekend!  We have several fun things planned.  I'm walking in the 2023 Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday with Eric, our son and daughter-in-law.  If you'd like to donate, please click HERE.  It would be great to finally have a cure for this life-changing disease.  Thanks for considering making a donation!