General notes:

* Can someone please tell the people who win awards for movies based on books to thank the author who wrote the original work? Only Alexander Payne remembered to do this. I do want to see "Hugo", but I loved the book long before the movie came along, and someone needs to thank Brian Selznick for his work.

* I enjoyed The Artist, ( Read more... )

There have been very few books that I've simply not been able to finish. I've even lasted for months on just one book. But once or twice, there have been books that I simply stopped reading, not out of active dislike but rather because I completely forgot about them. For example, I was reasonably entertained by Life of Pi, and was about halfway ( Read more... )

I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who commented that a loaded gun in the first act of a play needs to be fired by the third act in order to for the dramatic experience to be satisfying. I am pleased to report that this is entirely true, especially when the first act presents loaded gun after loaded gun, and the dramatic experience becomes a waiting ( Read more... )

In no special order ( Read more... )

I don't know that the best part of "Doubt" was yet (still a lot to process), but here are some high points ( Read more... )