and Beach, who has clearly been influenced by her relationship with the influencer (“Ghostwriting for Caroline was like writing in a new tense – first person beautiful – the rules of time and inevitability were just different for her”) proves to be a really fantastic writer in this collec...
Now who in Oz has brains…? According to the notes in my collection for this book, author L. Frank Baum was growing a little tired of the Oz books and had every intention of making this, the sixth book in the series, the final entry. Of course we now know that this didn’t turn...
nightmarish denizens and frustrated teens, between well-crafted worlds that make a certain kind of necessary sense even if it’s not obvious to the reader at first, and self-indulgent whimsy that may have made sense to the author upon writing, but doesn’t hold up for a general audience ...
Author Seanan McGuire brings a highly poetic quality to the writing here which really sets a great mood for the story. It would be easy, I think, for someone to take this idea and have the wayward children find perfect lives in their new, magical worlds, but McGuire shows us that these...
Detail of Hackney Peace Carnival, spot the “Jobs Not Bombs” banner. There’s also a way in which murals are used to stress a sense of peace in the community. In North London, the Broadwater Farm Peace mural was commissioned in 1987, after riots. One shows Gandhi, John Lennon and Bob...
Just brace yourself for disappointment. Looking for a good book? The Twelve by Justin Cronin is a classic case of the second book in a series not living up to the energy and excitement of the first. This is a pale follow-up to The Passage. * * * * * * The Twelve author: Justin ...
Although the money spent for a garden may be little, one cannot escape the fact that gardening requires hard work and time. Many of the gardening tasks must be performed at times that are most inconvenient. Not doing jobs that should be done on a regular basis may result in failure and ...
regular jobs – he was a plant foreman and she was a surgical nurse. And probably thanks to their avocation, unlike many kids, I grew up loving fruits. But I was talking about roses. As many beautiful things are, this rose was very fickle: it didn’t want to propagate through the ...
We're looking at another year of several television and movie projects filming right here in the Hudson Valley. If you've always wanted to get into acting, why not start with a film that will be filmed all over the mid-Hudson region in places like Newburgh, Saugerties and Poughkeepsie?Hud...
(which aren’t as good as he claimed fyi); however, there’s some difficulty in checking the veracity of these sources. Obviously they have all stemmed from some published source, given that they are ad verbatim copy-and-paste jobs, but what that source is I can’t work out. Over the...