After the book, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, was mentioned here in relation to the Doctor Who episodes, "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead", I knew I had to read it. So, now I have ( Read more... )

I have to admit to having been very curious about the Twilight series of books by Stephanie Meyers. She's been compared to JK Rowling and the phenomenon of her books has been compared to Harry Potter with a large online fan base and people dressing up as characters from the stories for book release parties. Here is a representative article about ( Read more... )

The political division in this country over the past 15-20 years has seemed really horrible to me. I blamed this on 24-hour news networks. I mean, how else can they get people to continue watching them without making a huge deal out of the smallest thing? There are also all the extreme political commentators who seem to drag people to the ( Read more... )

Last week I finished my latest book, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, which I thought was interesting and entertaining, though I'm not sure how well I liked the main character.  The book made much more sense to me than the movie; although, to be fair, that may have been because I was also posting on LJ and in various Harry Potter fora while I ( Read more... )