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Andrea Monagle
@andreamontoro.bsky.social
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I read books for work, and I read books for fun. Sometimes I do other stuff in between.
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@monagle.bsky.social and I just celebrated our fourteen-year anniversary. My second-longest relationship:
The composer Alexandre Desplat, once again my #1 listened-to artist of the year.
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025). Lol a 782K-word manuscript. What is a publisher, made of trees?
Another day of not knowing the difference between a monsignor and a priest.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993).
I’ll simply copy my Goodreads review of the book: An exercise in how often a [viewer] can quietly murmur, “Oh, Mr. Stevens . . . 🥺”
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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KEEPER (2025).
A beige cardigan for your one-year anniversary? That’s a deal-breaker, ladies.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025). Don’t give your kid the aux cord.
Most Cultured Award at the foreign film matinee screening at the local film society goes to the woman who chuckled knowingly at the Waiting for Godot reference before the subtitles revealed it as such.
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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"I don't get it. Why are they confessing?" "They're not confessing." "They're bragging."
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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THE MONKEY (2025).
Gore and deranged tone aside, “a life where you sit down and you don't stand up again until you want to” is a pretty great distillation of the joy of a child-free life.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Passenger hostage.
Sufjan Christmas music on November 10
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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BUGONIA (2025).
I don’t know, I guess I’m not smart. You win, with your weird stuff. That’s what you want, right? To win.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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OUTLAND (1981). I know I’m almost a week late to the “Wallace Shawn as the guy from YOUNG SHELDON” discourse, but: 🚨BUNNY FROM SATC AS A BADASS DOCTOR NAMED LAZARUS🚨
I’m a miner who’s all for dangerous amphetamines in the workplace, but that’s too many cigarettes and firearms for my compressed-oxygen safety.
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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SHELBY OAKS (2024).
I too would make sure to get my money’s worth and not wash off a face of full glam until the end of the day.
November 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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RELAY (2024).
I would be remanded into some sort of gossipers’ supermax after one week’s employment at the Tri-State Relay Service.
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017).
The hardest job on that production was the network censor live-bleeping the swear words for broadcast.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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HUSH (2016).
More authors should care this much about their endings hanging together.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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SOUND OF MY VOICE (2011). A two-movie day that ends with me crying “Booooo” at the TV . . . That’s cinema, baby.
The primary footage for this documentary was going to be proto–Google Glass shaky-cam footage? Am I understanding that right?
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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FRANKENSTEIN (2025).
“I don't believe it. I don't believe it. [The deans at this medical college lecture are] meant to defend me against these characters, and the only one I've got on my side is the bloodsucking [amateur portraitist].”
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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“Who disturbs my slumber?”
Story, aggrieved.
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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No one is on my level. #GOMs
Zero search results for my galaxy-brain idea that George Kirby is budget Timothée Chalamet.
October 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025).
Our national nightmare: a president who says “I was listening to this podcast . . .”
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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QUEENS OF THE DEAD (2025).
Feels like I failed some sort of crucial test, that the straight white male buffoon was my favorite character.
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The street that had a broken water main in July will go unrepaired until morale improves.
Date predictions for when the street will be completed: Go Birds.
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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(Finally) going to the DMV tomorrow to get my PA license, and it looks like my sweet, precious print media, which Matt says I should "cancel yesterday" because I "never read any of the issues," will be my saving grace.
An explanation of acceptable forms of proof of residency with "magazine" highlighted.
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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M3GAN 2.0 (2025).
The part of Ethan Hunt will now be played by M3GAN.
October 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Mood.
Lyric from Date Everything: Oh for god’s SAKE you cannot sneak up on me like that when I’m reading!
October 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Alternately, Brian Cox at the end.
Jerry: You kept giving out candy? Kramer: Well, people kept ringing the bell.
October 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM