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An Entertaining Companion

Ever since a recent sick day turned into an excuse for an all-day TV marathon, I've been glued to the BBC's "Call the Midwife." And if there's one thing I love, it's a companion volume to a great TV show! This glossy, hefty book has chapters on various aspects of post-WWII life in Britain, with plenty of emphasis on vintage fashion, and lots of lovely photos to drool over. You'll learn behind-the-scenes tidbits about the actors, the scripts, and the shooting process. Any fan of the show will love The Life and Times of Call the Midwife. Check out my [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:58-07:00June 24th, 2013|Tags: , , , |

Fire Away

I just finished reading Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan, and although it's a cliche to say so, I truly could not put this book down. I read it on the bus; I read it on my lunch break; I read it at home when I was supposed to be washing dishes. What about this memoir makes it so engrossing? The story begins when then-24-year-old Susannah Cahalan, a sparky and driven reporter for the New York Post, suddenly starts acting strange: erratic behavior, wild mood swings, and symptoms like numbness and hallucinations. As her condition worsens, [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:59-07:00June 7th, 2013|Tags: , , |

“Going Clear”: A Master-piece?

Thanks to the library, I have my hot little hands on a copy of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright. Previously, I'd read Wright's fantastic article in the New Yorker about David Miscavige, the successor to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard. And now there's so much more to wallow in! I'm only about 100 pages in so far, but already it's an astonishing portrait of a bizarre, delusional, overbearing, narcissistic larger-than-life personality. With this background, I'm now realizing how eerily accurate Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in The Master really was. (It doesn't make me [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:01-07:00April 11th, 2013|Tags: , , |
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