What are the Iliad and the Odyssey about? What is the message of the Aeneid? What is 'Eveline' by James Joyce about? What is Shaw's Pygmalion? What did Voltaire write about? What is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' short story Gal Young Un about?
The truth about Witchcraft is simple, it is the art of writing words and spells to create a story that has more than one meaning, for example, a book written using black ink on white pages when it is unread, once you read it, it is red, which before the King James version of the...
“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.” Which is exactly why, four decades after his introduction inRaiders Of The Lost Ark, Empire readers still rank Indiana Jones asthe greatest character in movie history. And whilstJames Mangold’sIndiana Jones & The Dial Of Destinymay well...
October 5, 2023 Comments Off on Vampires, Witches & Skulls, Oh My: A Spooky Picture Book Round-Up It has been another banner year for spooky (in some cases, “spooky”) picture books, and once again, I could not pick a favorite. In fact, I might like this bunch even better than ...
More About This Book The Benefits of Being an Octopus Ann Braden Zoey wishes she had eight arms like an octopus. Because if she did, she would be able to balance her responsibilities at home caring for her younger brother and sister, doing her schoolwork, and laying low around her mother...
Travel writer Jan Morris (formerly James) and musician Wendy (formerly Walter) Carlos came along a decade or two later. Their transition to a sex other than the one they had been born with at a point where both were mature adults was viewed as kind of a private eccentricity, not ...
Cross season 1 Aldis Hodge stars as Alex Cross, the star of dozens of James Patterson books. He’s a homicide detective in Washington D.C. Part police procedural, part thriller, this series may not be the stuff of HBO dreams, but it is a solid show buoyed by a great lead performance...
I obviously couldn’t feature every store or every book, but if this post sells a few books and even helps people find some signed copies of their faves, I feel good about it! Note: I did not list a book as signed if the *listing* for the book did not say it, but many of thes...
Kris Kristofferson (sans beard) with James Coburn in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Having double-checked, I find it incredible that he never once appeared on the UK Singles Chart in his own right, despite the fact so many of his songs did make an appearance when sung by other people –...
group of women. She seemed kind of embarrassed to bring it, since most of the others had brought novels or serious nonfiction pieces. We did poke a little fun at her for bringing such a “popcorn” book, but ultimately I ended up taking that book home, because I wanted a fun, easy ...