May 14, 2013
5:43 p.m.
I read The Great Gatsby in high school. It’s one of the few forced reading assignments that I actually remember enjoying. Which is why when the movie was released recently I had to see it. I am usually leery of movies based on novels, (especially no...
May 4, 2013
9:16 a.m.
I’ve noticed that some writer’s are incredibly good at getting in the mind of their characters. For instance I’m reading Alice In Wonderland for fun and I had never noticed before how well Lewis Carroll gets into the mind of a child. Des...
April 25, 2013
2:12 p.m.
I just finished reading The Dreams in the Witch House by H.P Lovecraft. I won’t get into the gory details but it basically about a man named Walter Gilman, mathematics major at Miskatonic University who take board in building called Witch House. Dur...
April 18, 2013
10:02 p.m.
Has anyone ever wondered what it would be like to wonder free, without a car in the world? Mike Brodie was traveled the country in his youth with his camera collecting images of his adventures and friends who embodied a “train punk” lifestyle ...
April 8, 2013
11:25 a.m.
I’m reading Shadow Out of Time by HP Lovecraft. I find his writing interesting. He masterfully describes the fear and dread that the ‘monsters’ in the protagonists in his novels, rather than their physical appearance. But I digress. Shad...
March 30, 2013
4:22 p.m.
A few days back I heard an interview on NPR with author Ty Burr who wrote Gods Like Us. This is book explores the dynamic of a movie star’s public persona, and the there true personalities. It explains the history of the star making process and how ...
March 24, 2013
5:58 p.m.
A friend of mine just finished reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Since it was her first time reading the novel I was curious to hear her thoughts on this classic piece of Americana. She made the interesting point that Huck Finn&rsq...
March 13, 2013
12:01 a.m.
In the Image of Their Gods leans heavy on Native American culture. Native American culture tends to teach unity of all things. They believe that all things are connected through nature or spiritually. Scientists say that all the elements that make up the ...
March 5, 2013
11:30 a.m.
Just the other day I heard on NPR about discovery of old suitcases of in the attic of the Willard Psychiatric Center in Willard, N.Y. These cases belonged to the patients of Willard between 1910 and the 1960s. The personal effects were beautifully arrange...
Feb. 24, 2013
10:03 p.m.
I have to admit Stephen King is a master of subtle fear and tension. In the Tall Grass is a short story about brother and sister Cal and Becky DeMuth driving cross-country. During the trip they stop in Kansa and hear a child calling for help from a large ...
