Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
August went by in the blink of an eye and I feel like I mean that literally. This month, a lot of the time that I would have normally spent reading and blogging were consumed by work, The Underground Literary Society (where Amy and I last talked about some of the books that have got [...]
Mikael Blomqvist is a respected reporter and publisher of Millenium, a moderately successful financial reporting magazine that he owns with his long time lover Erika Berger. His career and all of their prospects take a nose dive after he is convicted of making libelous statements against business magnate Hans Erik Wennerstrom. Blomqvist is offered the [...]
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks, sees Anna Frith, a young mother and housemaid in a small village, grapple with the ideas of religion, scripture and the strength of her own faith when an outbreak of the plague cripples the community in which she was born and raised. As the village [...]
Chandra Hoffman’s Chosen arrived as an unsolicited review copy a few weeks ago from Harper Collins, and I wasn’t sure when I would get to it. Any book that promises to examine the adoption issue from all angles is definitely high on my list of books to be read, but it was this review of Chosen [...]
In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a single father raising his two children, Jem and Scout, in Maycomb County, Alabama under the watchful eyes of dear and eccentric neighbors. Atticus rules the roost with a seemingly lenient hands off approach (he has Calpurnia to more strongly keep the kids in [...]
Did you see what happened at the 1:09 minute mark!?!? As a child/tween/teenager that was my biggest fear! It might still be. But more on that in a minute. This movie is out December 1st, and it looks like what excites me most – a smart and suspenseful psychological thriller. Just from this clip I [...]
I have watched with interest as a growing number of books have accompanying book trailers or some other form of visual promotion. It’s all over the place. More and more, because of conditions in which artists are having to resort to innovative ways to get others to experience their craft, multi-faceted strategies are needed and [...]
Yummy: The Last Days of A Southside Shorty, by G. Neri & Randy Duburke Lee and Low Books – July 30, 2010 – Paperback – 96 pages Source: Review Copy I can’t recall when I first heard the story of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, but I remember that it was sometime earlier this year. I was [...]
How is everyone this fine Sunday morning? It is a merciful 71 degrees in NYC, and I have had (gasp!) my windows open for the first time in weeks. It is so wonderful to have a week where the high temp is 80. I am really, really grateful. A couple of weeks ago I was [...]
Hayden Lane is a romance writer living in New York City. While writing her next novel, she becomes enamored of the lead male character in the book, so much so that she literally cannot stop writing about him even though her manuscript is long overdue. Through time travel via hypnosis, Hayden finds herself trapped in [...]