Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
The Jellybeans and the Big Dance
by Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans; Laura Numeroff, illustrator.
Starting on the cover with the adorable little creatures in their sparkly costumes then following their adventures and misadventures in dance school, readers will fall in love with Emily and her dance partners as they prepare to perform “Oh Little Bug.” Illustrations [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
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The Rake is William F. Buckley’s last novel, and the tale of a charming rogue who goes from calculating undergraduate to all-but-announced candidate for President of the United States. Set from the 1960s through 1991, the story of the charismatic but unscrupulous Ruben Castle is a political cautionary tale of what happens [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
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A great choice for National Poetry Month. ”Poet laureate Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project was a stroke of genius. Americans were invited to share by letter a poem they treasured; then many were recorded reading their chosen poems for inclusion in a national video and audio archive. The response was tremendous, and as Pinsky notes, [...]
Posted in fiction, movie tie in on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
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Originally published in 1938, Miss Pettigrew has been rediscovered and reprinted in a beautiful paperback edition by Persephone, including gorgeous line drawings. A fantasy screwball comedy a little like a Thin Man movie crossed with with an episode of Upstairs Downstairs gone mad, Miss Pettigrew has now been adapted as a major motion picture [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The New York Times has published its annual Ten Best Books of the year.
On the top of my “to read” list is TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson. “The author of Jesus’ Son offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.”
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Posted in fiction on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
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“Once upon a time, in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, there was a good boy who fell in love with a bad girl. He treated her with tenderness; she repaid him with cruelty. The bad girl mocked the good boy’s devotion, criticized his lack of ambition, exploited his generosity when it was [...]
Posted in biography, history on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
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This is a biography of Porfirio Rubirosa the iconic Latin Lover, gigolo, playboy of the 1940s , 50s and 60s. “Rubi” as he was known to international and cafe society and the sensational press of the time was the husband of Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke and the [...]
Posted in documentary, video on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
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Spike Lee lets Katrina survivors tell the story in their own incredible words. “…What you’ll remember is the valor and humor of the people of New Orleans, determined to rebuild.” - Rolling Stone
Posted in fiction, mystery on May 24, 2007 | No Comments »
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Whether or not you liked The Da Vinci Code, you may enjoy Iain Pears’ art-themed mystery series. In The Immaculate Deception, the acting head of Italy’s Art Theft Squad, attempts to track down the thief who stole a politically sensitive painting on loan from a foreign museum, a search that soon becomes a [...]
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