Here are thoughts on my recent reads:

One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman -- The true story of two married authors. One of them has a stroke and loses his ability to communicate. Traditional speech therapy doesn't help, so his wife (and author of this memoir) employs unconventional means to restore his connection to words. The book ( Read more... )

More book talk, because I don't have the energy to write about other things. Tomorrow instead, I think ( Read more... )

My recent reads:

You Caught Me Kissing by Dorothy Bridges -- I love movies. My love for movies is definitely on par with my love of books. One does not trump the other. So when I found out that the mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges wrote a book chronicling her decades-long romance with Lloyd Bridges, I was immediately on board! ...Well, it wasn' ( Read more... )

But all right, Carl thought with a serene confidence he'd never before experienced. This time, what did it matter if fear had held him back? He was glad he'd left that man alive. If cowardice had kept him from firing his gun, he was glad he was a coward. In any case, he was finished with the Mathilda who'd tormented him. He'd pursued the trail ( Read more... )

Think in ways you've never thought before...
When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.

-- Robert Bly

I'm still here! Where are yoooou, and what have you been doing?

I've been working and eating and sleeping and showering and watching television (Sarah Connor Chronicles) and watching movies (Million Dollar Baby) and talking on the phone and wanting to respond to emails (I can't just shoot two sentences off and be satisfied. It always has to be ( Read more... )

Have you ever finished a novel and scratched your head in bewilderment? This happened to me recently with two books, Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz and The Regulators by Richard Bachman (pseudonym for author Stephen King.)

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I proudly admit it -- I have always been a huge fan of "Family Ties", but the DVDs were dangled as a carrot for so long, I thought they'd never happen! And now...look! We're already at Season 3, baby! (Scheduled for release on February 12, 2008 -- a mere three weeks away! I'M SO THERE.)

Still, there remain a few series that I love, which have ( Read more... )

Conversation that occurs every time my paramour and I spot either John Malkovich or Peter Sarsgaard onscreen:

(spotting John Malkovich) "LOOK, IT'S PETER SARSGAARD!"
(spotting Peter Sarsgaard) "LOOK, IT'S JOHN MALKOVICH!"

Seriously, their voices sound exactly alike. And as such, I ask of you, my fantastic friendslist ( Read more... )

Let's talk about Mary Stuart Masterson some more. Just because. I'll go first, okay? It shall be known that I own (and swoon at) the following marvelous films: Heaven Help Us, Some Kind of Wonderful !!!, Chances Are, Immediate Family, Married to It, Fried Green Tomatoes, Benny and Joon and Bed of RosesAlas, my collection noticeably paused in ( Read more... )