This may have been one of the best reading weeks of my adult life. I had the pleasure of reading not just one, but three fabulous books:
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (I’ve broken out our discussion of TTW into a separate post, so we can speak freely without worrying about spoiling it [...]
Let’s start with the love.
LOVE THIS book like I’ve loved few before. There are some books out there–Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is another one that comes to mind–that are so rich and beautiful I can’t even imagine how that writer’s brain bears any similiary to my writer brain. I [...]
Last night saw Notes on a Scandal. Scary in ways you don’t normally think of as scary. You know, relationship scary.
The plot was compelling, the writing good, but it was the acting that makes that movie. Cate Blanchett and Dame Judi Dench–what a killer combo. Isn’t it such [...]
Yesterday’s walk down bitter lane about the pizza man who posted false and wicked information about the latest Harry Potter the day after it came out made me think about some of the other strangers and acquaintances I’m holding fierce and enduring grudges against. Like the woman who asked me at a party whether [...]
A rising tide floats all boats. In the spirit of that, some of you are going to get some special surprise chocolate in the near future. Why? Because this has been a very, very, very good week for me. So much happy news my face is almost breaking from all the [...]
I’ve been thinking about this since last Saturday night, when I saw a terrific movie at the Sundance Film Festival that I won’t name, for reasons about to become clear. I’ve been trying to sort through how I feel about what happened, and I decided to just throw it out to you guys.
The flick [...]