AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | yesterday
The dining room of La Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, as designed and furnished by its owner-architect, Ogden Codman, 1939. The scagiola walls imitate marble in three shades of red; ditto the cornice. On this day when we Americans gather around the nearest dining table and dig into turkey and dressing (or perhaps you call it stuffing, depending on your geographic location), I thought I would...
MyWeaverville.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
December 2009 programs at the Weaverville Library: Book Clubs, Sit and Knit, Used Book Sale, Storytimes, Teen Groups, Sheila Kay Adams
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
So I finally went to go see New Moon last night despite how awful Twilight was and I've got to saw it was much better than its predecesor. While Bella still annoys me and Robert Patterson, though wonderful as Cedric Digory, is a somewhat hopeless and creepy Edward, the movie was pretty decent. The acting has improved all around. Dakoyta Fanning was pretty epic; I loved her eye makeup and Taylor as...
Smithereens (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I usually steer clear of challenges (because of the induced guilt when I abandon them midway), but I’m mellowing these days. They’re just too tempting. Danielle brought my attention towards the Women Unbound Challenge, hosted by Eva, Aarti and Care. The challenge’s ambition is to read a number of fiction and non-fiction books addressing feminist [...]
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
If you arrived to see film reviews skip down to read them. If you are looking for a movie download site here are some phrases to search. Film download searches will include "Online Music Download Services", "Unlimited DVD Rentals", and "Downloadable DVDs".
book-a-rama (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I'm foreseeing a busy couple of months ahead with Christmas coming. I have several projects on the go, including making Christmas gifts. I also decided to spend a little more time on my sad Etsy shop and actually put some items in it. Then there's the concerts, parties, cleaning and baking that will need to be done. Last year, I caught a really bad flu and ended up in bed for a couple of weeks. I...
Farmboyz / Perge Modo (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Do you realize how heavily Jane Austen or Edith Wharton, if they were writing today, would lean on the "spam folder" as the declaration of love-thwarting romantic doom device that could cause generations of unhappy marriages, regret and erroneous avoidances. And what fun Shakespeare would have had with it. It could replace the sleeping potion in Romeo and Juliet. And, my God, Dickens! He'd...
Erik's Choice (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I. A book's title is at least as important as its cover. Certainly that's the case with Sue Kaufman and her legacy. Many many people have at least heard of her Diary of a Mad Housewife (1967). How many can say the same of one of her earlier novels, Green Holly (1961)? First, Green Holly is good, a take on New York society in the tradition of Edith Wharton and Henry James, updated to the 1950s. But...
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I tend to steer clear of reading challenges these days. They always sound so tempting, but I usually fizzle out somewhere near the middle and by the end it's generally long forgotten (except for Carl's annual RIP Challenge, which I...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Playwright John Patrick Shanley referring to Tennessee Williams as a "gorgeous unstoppable beast," recounted an incident in a restaurant when he, a budding writer,...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Clockwise from top left: Ben Foster , Dorothy Hamilton, David Bouley , PFFR , Kumail Nanjiani Mon, Nov 9 Film: Coming Home (1978) Directed by Hal Ashby, Starring Jane Fonda Food Talks: Cooks Who Care: Connecting Community Through Food Film: The Messenger with actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman in person for post-screening Q&A moderated by Eric Kohn. Tue, Nov 10 Music: John Brodeur , FREE....
The Diary Junction Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
‘So much in my past that I hate to evoke. Short of violence, I have been capable of every sin, every misdemeanour, every crime. With horror I think what I should have become if I lived the life of an ill-paid professor, or struggling writer, how rebellious, if I had not lived a life devoted to great art . . .’ So wrote, Bernard Berenson, in his very last diary entry. He was one of the 20th...
Civil War Women (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Wife of Union General Philippe Regis de Trobriand Mary Mason Jones was born in 1819, the daughter of Isaac and Mary Mason Jones. Her father was the president of the Chemical Bank, and her mother was American novelist Edith Wharton's great-aunt, and the model for the high and mighty Mrs. Mingott in the Wharton's novel, The Age of Innocence . Philippe Regis de Keredern de Trobriand was born outside Tours,...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
By David Lambert - The all-real supernatural adventures of Jason and Grant, plumbers by day and ghost hunters by night, get even scarier in the hit fifth season! Now one of TV's most popular shows returns... (more)
Dante and the Lobster (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
This paragraph had me screeching so I thought I'd share: "All of her life, Lily has fled intimacy and kept others at a distance, but here she absorbs another, as the imagery suggests, into her womb. When Lily sleeps that final time, the child she cradles is herself. Through a painful process of establishing limits, by saying no to Gus Trenor, no to Mrs. Hatch, no to George Dorset, no to Sim Rosedale,...
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