Rebecca Deniston

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novels seem to be required reading for many Americans just for the sheer love of it. The home-y scenes of family life, the food, and the glimpses of a time long past are something to be visited over and over again. I know I have, and I even got to visit the site of the Ingalls’ cabin in Kansas, which Wilder wrote about in Little House On the Prairie. This novel has been adapted for the small screen several times, the most famous instance being the Michael Landon series.

Gotta hand it to Netflix for their impeccable timing. Not only have they released Shipwrecked: Nightmare At Sea at the height of summer vacay season, but it’s currently the number one movie. Eeeeeeep. Train wrecks and shipwrecks have a lot in common, I guess. Seriously, though, this film is terrifying. Taking Up More Room is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

There’s a ton of buzz right now over Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and it hasn’t been good. I’ve read the book a few times, and I know enough about the new movie to know that the odds are not in Nolan’s favor. Yeah, I know that the reasonable thing would be to wait until the movie’s out to judge it either way, but some movies just stink from a mile off.