Atlas Shrugged

I’m extremely pleased it will be playing in Bellingham, Massachusetts on opening weekend! That’s not super close, but it’s an easy drive, not utterly absurd for an event movie, and not in the city. I didn’t want to be tempted to go downtown to Boston or Cambridge.
On that note, I like the latest [...]

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Not Like the Movie

Started reading Julie & Julia a few days ago and have been finding it about as hard to put down as anything I’ve read recently. She is entertaining, funny and compelling. Frankly, it reminds me of reading myself, which sounds terribly immodest.
Most importantly, I did see the film when it was out, which [...]

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The Thing In B3

My parents encouraged reading, and my mother made sure I got books to the best of our ability to afford them or borrow from the library. I got a bunch through the Weekly Reader Book Club, including ones I remember parts of vividly but can’t begin to remember the names of. Funny how [...]

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Chicken Soup With Rice

Everyone knows about Where The Wild Things Are. It was a staple of my childhood. However, I was completely unaware that Maurice Sendak had written anything else.
My ex had a different perspective, being smitten with Chicken Soup With Rice when she was a kid. So she bought it for our five year [...]

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