I capped off Thanksgiving weekend with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. What an excellent installment in the series. The movies have gotten better and better since Prisoner of Azkaban and this one has an epic feel to it. Obviously things are very dark as Deathly Hallows opens with Harry, Ron and Hermione [...]
The Dancer & Sexy Big Man has been out just a couple weeks now and it seems to be doing well so far. On Dreamspinner’s Nap-Size Dreams Bestseller list the short story has been at #1 for nearly the entire time its been out. This is exciting because Rivals got only to #3 during its [...]
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25Nov10
Burlesque
Cher + Christina + fabulous production numbers = Thanksgiving movie fun Burlesque is a sort of Showgirls lite. At just a pG-13, there’s no nudity, no sex, no rape, no violence. There is a similar plot though as Ali (Christina) comes to LA from Iowa to become a star. She ends up in a club, [...]
What a delight that a new Tales of the City novel published this month. It’s been just over three years since Michael Tolliver Lives debuted and now Armistead Maupin brings us a Mary Ann centric story with Mary Ann in Autumn. I couldn’t put this book down, finishing it off within about 36 hours of [...]
It’s been an unnaturally long time between book review posts. The last one was back on October 9 with The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell. It’s not that I haven’t been reading the past few weeks, it’s just been going slowly as I’ve been working on [...]
