Upon finishing Carrie Lofty’s new release, Scoundrel’s Kiss, and its 2008 predecessor What a Scoundrel Wants, I have that sense of frustration I often get with romances: Why do such great books have doofus-y covers? Especially ones where the shirtless dude doesn’t look a thing like the hero? And being a lifelong reader, you’d think I’d… Read More There aren’t enough scoundrels in your life.
Often times, my approach to solving a love triangle is “Oh, why can’t they all just move in together?” Today, I found myself saying that with a non-triangle: ATWT’s Henry, Katie and Simon. I just adore them together. Plus Jacob. Of course I can’t forget the baby! Their scenes in the wake of Brad’s death have… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
As I pack up my things and get ready to head back to the city from my week-long hiatus in the Midwest, I feel like I got very little accomplished. Of course, I was out of commission due to illness for much of the time and that definitely sapped my creativity. Nonetheless, I added about… Read More The last week of the year, in review.
I finally got to the theater to see Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, touted for featuring the first black princess. I really had a lot of misgivings initially, because of the ad campaign that featured mostly Louis the alligator and Ray the firefly. Why not show the princess in the commercials, hmm? And then… Read More The Princess and the Frog hops to it
One Life to Live ushered in 2010 in a very special way today, when Kyle and Fish “rang in the new year together.” And by “rang in” I mean “hit the” and by “the new year” I mean “sheets.” It’s such a fantastic moment for a couple whose love story viewers were introduced to in media res.… Read More OLTL: Kishing at midnight.
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is the perfect cure for the holiday blues. There are worse ways to spend an afternoon than hanging out in pseudo steampunk 19th century London with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. Sherlock Holmes balances the explosions and fight scenes one would expect from a Ritchie film with a crisp, witty… Read More Holmes for the holidays
Is the increasing use of bookstores as places not just to buy books but to sit around reading them contributing to the decline of the modern lending library? I’ve been thinking about this a lot, especially since I tend to frequent both the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public library and two booksellers: the ubiquitous… Read More Barnes Ignoble: Are libraries a thing of the past?
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