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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

Next month in This Awful Awesome Life - June 2023

Thank you for reading the May 2023 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to www.thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.

Next month we want to be daring in This Awful Awesome Life. June first is officially “Dare Day.” It’s a day we challenge ourselves and others to do something different. Perhaps we’ll have to resort to a “double dog dare” or a “triple dog dare.” We’ll be discussing dares. Why do they exist, and are they important? How can a dare hurt or help us? We may ask you to step outside your comfort zone, but we will never dare you to do anything that could cause you or anyone/anything harm.

We’ll also be celebrating National Children’s Day, Flag Day, Father’s Day, International Picnic Day, and ways to enjoy the great outdoors.

Lilly Kauffman, Orlando Bartro, Linda Cahill, and I will be back with interesting articles and recipes for you.

We’ll be continuing our reading recommendations, streaming articles, “What’s in a Word?” and “Dare to Believe.”

It’s a new year for quizzes, Q&A’s, and book reviews.

Stay safe. Stay well. You are important, and you are loved.

All my best,

Fran

 

Answers to the May 2023 Quiz - A Mysterious Separation:

The Boogeyman stars Chris Messina who stars in the film, Cake with Jennifer Anniston who stars in Murder Mystery. 

Inside Man was directed by Spike Lee who also directed Summer of Sam which stars Patti LuPone who is in Driving Miss Daisy with Morgan Freeman who is in Se7en. 

Killers of the Flower Moon stars Leonardo Di Caprio who also stars in Inception which was directed by Christopher Nolan who also directed Memento. 

Marlowe was directed by Ridley Scott who also directed Hannibal which stars Anthony Hopkins who also stars in The Bounty with Mel Gibson who stars in Signs 

Glass Onion stars Daniel Craig who stars in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Rooney Mara who stars in Nightmare Alley with Toni Collette who also stars in The Sixth Sense. 

The Big Sleep is based on the novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler who also wrote The Long Goodbye which was adapted into a movie starring Elliott Gould who also stars in Dangerous Lies. 

Enola Hughes stars Henry Cavill who stars in Mission Impossible: Fallout with Tom Cruise who stars in Jack Reacher.  

Where the Crawdads Sing stars Daisy Edgar-Jones who stars in Fresh with Sebastian Stan who stars in Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Anthony Mackie who stars in The Adjustment Bureau. 

Mystic River stars Kevin Bacon who also stars in Wild Things with Matt Dillon who stars in Takers with Jay Hernandez who is in Lakeview Terrace. 

Amsterdam stars Margot Robbie who stars in Focus with Will Smith who stars in Enemy of the State.

 

 

May 2023 Reading Recommendations for Adults by Fran Joyce

April 2023 in This Awful Awesome Life