After I noticed my sister reading it (thanks, Deb), I picked up The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, two psychologists. While I thought the authors had many intriguing points, and of course it was worth the read to get…
Warning: I found something on the Internet that annoys me again! So I just finished Mockingjay, the third book of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy. If you haven’t read it, turn off your computer now and go do it. It is one of the very best series of YA books…
So a comment on last week’s blog entry (thanks, Diana) got me thinking, although maybe not in the way its author intended (sorry, Diana). She asked, via my Facebook feed of this blog, “…have you watched 30 Rock at all? I’d be interested on your take of the female characterization…
… and everybody who’s anybody is in love with her. (No, I’m not talking about Smurfette*.)
Ga ga ooh la la… Okay, so without condemning or praising this development, and acknowledging that I’m judging based only on the first couple episodes of the season, one of my favourite shows has suddenly shifted emphasis from mystery to romance. This seems to have split fans down the middle.…
I don’t know why I’m beginning this new entry now (Monday morning), when I’m not really sure where I’m going to take it, when House, M. D. starts up again tonight* and will probably inspire me to a variety of rants and/or analyses. Then again, I’m winging this one with…
Okay, my “short” reviews don’t seem to be that short anymore. So, in the interests of returning to my terse roots, reviews in three sentences or fewer! Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Jonah Lehrer, 2007) —
(See? See what I did there?) I’m blogging today about three works that made me think a bit more about how expectations and knowledge can affect the way I experience stories. Yeah, you’ve been warned.
Welcome to my mix of public thanks, travelogue, and short reviews. The joy of the Internet is, there’s still time to click “back” on your browsers. Going… going… gone. So, first: THANK YOU to all who joined us for our awesome Stratford adventure, but particularly to our generous drivers, Juliana…