I was a little wary of picking up a book at the airport, after my last less-than-satisfying impulse buy. Especially when the back cover copy of Rainwater cited that this was a story about a woman and “her special child.” A little corny, right? I actually winced. But Sandra Brown is one of those authors… Read More Rainwater, by Sandra Brown
Disney’s Tangled bears about as much resemblance to the original Rapunzel fairy tale as I do to Angelina Jolie. That’s something one comes to expect from Disney. Be it The Little Mermaid or Aladdin, they take a familiar tale and, well, tangle it a little. Here, Rapunzel is not the daughter of a beleaguered woman… Read More Tangled up in blue…and other colors
It’s pretty widely accepted in the writing community that it’s vital to write as often as possible… that setting aside time each day to write is The Way To Do It. Even something like NaNoWriMo feeds into this philosophy… challenging people to bang out 50,000 words in a month, like this is the pinnacle of… Read More Getting the last word
You know what’s worse than a book or a TV show being downright terrible? A book or a TV show being boring. I came to this conclusion a few weeks ago, when I was desperately trying to stay awake during the critically acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Boasting a stellar cast, a beautifully detailed period setting,… Read More That’s entertainment
I bumped my head earlier and felt along my hairline to make sure everything was okay. “Phrenology,” I thought, giggling and remembering some comedic bit from Men At Work, a movie I saw when I was 12. And then I remembered that Charlie Sheen was in it and a wave of nausea replaced any minor… Read More Thanks for ruining my childhood, Charlie Sheen
While Albany persists in being an episode of Romper Room and the MTA keeps trying to hike fares, what is New York State busying itself with? Really annoying campaigns to control its residents’ bodies! Doesn’t the NY State Health Department have anything better to do? First, there is the graphic anti-smoking campaign, with the amputee… Read More Public disservices (Never shake a lynx!)
Trial By Desire, Courtney Milan’s second full-length novel, might just be one of my favorite books of the year. It’s so crisply written, with such effective characterization and wit and warmth, that every line means something. Milan doesn’t hyperbolize to excess or wax poetic about anything unnecessary. What the reader gets is a smooth, and… Read More Trial By Desire, by Courtney Milan
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