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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for PMS-Away zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Each category offers a recommendation based on the main three common PMS moods: 1.) Bawl My Eyes Out 2.) Thank God I'm Not That Bad 3.) Make Me Laugh Before I Kill Someone!
This list was updated 4/14/2004
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From Amazon.com: On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.
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From Amazon.com: Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity.
3. Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
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From Amazon.com: Jeanne Marie Laskas is 37, with a house, garden, dog, cat, flourishing writing career--all of the perfect ingredients, in fact, of a happy city-person's life--when a childhood dream resurfaces. It is a farm dream, this "song I couldn't get out of my head," and it would make more sense, she ruefully admits, if she were "at least the farm dream type. A person with some deep personal longing to churn butter." But not Laskas. She likes malls. She eats Lean Cuisine. She believes "very deeply in the power of air conditioning, microwave ovens, and very many things you plug in." Nonetheless, she spends weekends on make-believe "farm shopping" excursions with her boyfriend, Alex, who is another city person, a shrink and the owner of an honest-to-goodness poodle--a farm dream disqualifier, if ever there were one. Then, one summer afternoon, the perfect place appears, and it's very real: fifty acres, a pond, an Amish barn, and a magnificent view out over the rolling hills of Pennsylvania's Washington County. They fall in love. They buy the farm. Goodbye, city-person life.
But the scenery with which they fell in love is
not quite like the scenery in postcards. Things need to be done to it, and all
of these things involve buying and learning how to use different kinds of
tractor attachments. And then there are the neighbors: the sheep farmer who
shoots dogs, the curious proliferation of Joe Crowleys, everywhere the
hunters. ("Congratulations on your ... dead deer," is all Alex can think to
say to them.) Over the year that follows, the two city slickers find out a
great deal about livestock, tractor attachments, and themselves; all of which
is related in Laskas's funny, warm, conversational style. As she leaves behind
her ordered, interior world for one that's gorgeously, chaotically exterior,
Fifty Acres and a Poodle
becomes much more than just a book about learning to live in the country; it
is, in fact, a book about learning to live--dead groundhogs, emotional messes,
and all. You don't need your own farm dream to fall in love with this witty
and winning memoir, but it wouldn't hurt to look through the real estate
pages, just in case.
1. The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion [SOUNDTRACK]
Original Release Date: 1993
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From Amazon.com: Michael Nyman came of age as a classical composer in the radical London of the late '60s. His work embraces multiple vernaculars (jazz, avant garde, conceptual art) and helped cement the foundation of what came to be known as minimalism. Decades into his career, Nyman's score to Jane Campion's film The Piano made him a star. The movie's themes of colonialism and silence (its protagonist, portrayed by Holly Hunter, cannot speak) were perfectly aligned with his longtime interests in world and ambient music. Horn players assist members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in fleshing out Nyman's stately, hymn-like motifs. On the more heavily orchestrated cues, sentimentality wins out over minimalist restraint; the best tracks feature Nyman on solo piano, playing the rudimentary, faux period repertoire of Hunter's character.
Original Release Date: 1995
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From Amazon.com: This is perhaps Leonard Cohen's greatest album. And for any artist with a catalog as rich, as rewarding, as intoxicating, and as deep as Leonard Cohen's, that's is a high compliment indeed. Every single song here is absolutely great. As incredible as Cohen's first two albums were (particularly the classic debut), this third effort is leaps and bounds above both of them. Cohen had clearly grown as a songwriter. Notice the deeper, more meaningful, more emotionally intense lyrics. Notice the more complex (lyrically and musically) and longer songs overall. Notice, even, how much Cohen had improved as a singer. While I never found his voice to be as bad as many do, his "sweet monotone" enunciates more clearly his poetry than it did before. And speaking of poetry, this blew away everything that he wrote before (not to mention what other people had written), and still stands as some of his finest. The music had grown in scope as well. Whereas the first two albums ran slightly monotonous by record's end with their nearly non-varying musical backing, Songs of Love and Hate is musically diverse. It's apparent from the first song, the masterpiece "Avalanche," that Cohen has something more musically ambitious in store for us here, and the entire album pervades with alternate guitar stylings, orchestrations, backing vocals, sound effects, and more. There are deep, harrowing songs on this album of the likes that Cohen had never done before (and has really never done since); for example, the aforementioned masterpiece "Avalanche" (covered by Nick Cave), the harshly self-flagellating "Dress Rehearsal Rag," and the oft-overlooked excellent track, "Sing Another Song, Boys." "Last Year's Man" seems to address the darker side of art. "Diamonds in the Mine" is a great song as well, and "Love Calls You by Your Name" is a classic. "Famous Blue Raincoat" is the classic written in the form of a letter. "Joan of Arc" is one of the best examples of Cohen's poetry. These songs and this album are absolute masterpieces; there's no other way of putting it. Buy it today; your music collection is simply not complete without it.
3. Bigger & Blacker [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
Original Release Date: 1999
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From Amazon.com: With
Bigger & Blacker, Chris Rock teams up
with producer Prince Paul once again; the duo snagged a Grammy together for
their work on 1997's brash
Roll With the New. Bigger is a
cutting-edge mishmash of studio skits, live recordings, and crazy musical
numbers with guest shots from Ol' Dirty Bastard, Ice Cube, Biz Markie, Gerald
Levert, and others. The bulk of the album is road-tested live material (mostly
recorded at the Comedy Corner in West Palm Beach, Florida, in May 1999) that
ranges from the difference between ghetto and suburban shopping malls to
taxes, homophobia, insurance, and women. Sandwiched between the live bits are
a send-up of N.W.A.'s "F**k tha Police" with Ice Cube; a ribald interpretation
of "Brown Sugar" with Biz Markie; and "Me and ODB," a hilarious, pimped-out
ghetto fairytale set to the funky beat of AWB's "Pick up the Pieces." Rock's
inescapable appeal lies in his delivery--his manic energy teeters on the edge,
reined in just enough so that it remains on this side of manic.
Bigger & Blacker shows that Rock is
equally at home whether flexing his standup material in front of a live
audience or goofing in the studio.
1. Mystic River
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Superior acting, writing, and direction are on impressive display in the critically acclaimed Mystic River, Clint Eastwood's 24th directorial outing and one of the finest films of 2003. Sharply adapted by L.A. Confidential Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane, this chilling mystery revolves around three boyhood friends in working-class Boston--played as adults by Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, and Kevin Bacon--drawn together by a crime from the past and a murder (of the Penn character's 19-year-old daughter) in the present. These dual tragedies arouse a vicious cycle of suspicion, guilt, and repressed anxieties, primed to explode with devastating and unpredictable results. Eastwood is perfectly in tune with this brooding material, giving his flawless cast (including Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden and Laurence Fishburne) ample opportunity to plumb the depths of a resonant human tragedy, leading to an ambiguous ending that qualifies Mystic River for contemporary classic status.
(2000) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
Previously criticized for her marginal
acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with
Played in a delicate minor key, the film is
heartbreaking, mysterious, and soulfully funny, set in a Michigan suburb of
the mid-1970s but timeless and universal to anyone who's been a teenager. The
four surviving Lisbon sisters lost a sibling to suicide, and as its title
suggests, the film will chart their mutual course to oblivion under the
vigilance of repressive parents (Kathleen Turner and James Woods, perfectly
cast). But
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First Season
(1999) ~ DVD
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David plays "himself" (as does his friend, Richard Lewis) although his manager and wife are played by comedians Jeff Garlin and Cheryl Hines. Although this first season is a comedic gem, one can't take more than an episode or two at a time--it's acidic, biting comedy. The episodes are often built like a house of cards, which the irritable David will surely collapse by the end. | |||||||||
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