This is the Entertainment Weekly Top 100 books from 1983 to the present. Despite its source, I find it to be pretty interesting. Since I love books and most of you love books, I thought I'd share it. Red ones are ones I've read. 1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of...
Someone said May is a month that deserves all of its 31 days. True it may be--but where do they go? I distinctly remember being busy every minute of them but did I accomplish anything? I did not. I have as little to show for this month of May as my pitiful lilac bush, which put out buds early in the...
Sooo... I lied and I haven't truly updated in a severely long time. That being the case, here' s my books update. Since I last truly posted, I've read (and note, I'm still on my exclamation point grading system): Drown, Junot Diaz: !!!! The Road, Cormac McCarthy: !!!!! In Defense of Food, Michael...
My Sazerac and the cigar list at Seven Grand Whiskey Bar When I'm not cooking or saving the world, I read books. The downtown LA public library hosts quite the line-up of authors throughout the year, and Wednesday night's discussion between Kenneth Turan and Michael Chabon provided plenty of...
I know what you're thinking-- thank HEAVENS, Miranda is finally writing again. I know, I know. Since I last wrote I've gone to Philadelphia, Florida, and Hackettstown, moved to a new borough, bought a bed, sold a bed, broke a dresser, hobnobbed with Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem and Stephen...
My coworker just loaned me three books, which I have dutifully put on the Book Project list. And then I looked at the list, and it is out of control. This is where we are: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Undertow by Sydney...
I thought we would focus on some of the stories that were being developed over the last few years for the Mouse. Many of which are in development hell, others still languishing in the process, with a select few actually having worked their way toward preproduction: Game Boys Walt Disney Pictures are...
Summer Reading (Eighth Grade) Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Bloor, Edward. Tangerine. Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights...
Clearly I have a lot of reading left to do. The Sister by Poppy Adams Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: Because We're All in it Together by Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer...
There’s this episode of Looney Tunes where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are stage performers. On stage, Bugs is wowing the crowd, and all Daffy ever gets is crickets. In anger, Daffy declares that he’s going to perform something dangerous, something daring, something no one’s ever seen before. He...
I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =) Start: January 5th, 2007 Books: Alphabetical by Author ( [R] are the books I'm...
In another of our series of articles on scripts/pitches the Mouse had bought or optioned that went nowhere, we continue to bring you more examples of how to spend lots of money for something and then loose interest in it... Skinner's Eddy A girl returns to her small town home after her uncle dies to...
Here we are with another collection of stories that wound up getting lost along the way to the movie theater... Summerland This children's fairy-tale based on a fantasy novel by Michael Chabon("Wonderboys') about baseball and the battle between good and evil in a world where fairies and werefoxes...
Show us the book you're reading right now. Submitted by Strive2Be. And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. I found this gem at a library book sale and had somehow never even heard of it, but was intrigued by the teaser on the dust jacket. Only later did I check Amazon's page on it, just out of...
It's been updated. Again. (I'm also going to add the books I buy this year as I buy them--and the new releases that I know I'm buying--so that it's a better list of what I've read and what I want to read.) The Sister by Poppy Adams Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison...
Please join us This Friday, July 11, at noon in the library meeting room for the showing of a recently released wild and wacky comedy. We look forward to meeting you in person! Prize of the week: Gift Certificate for Calloway’s Nursery Trivia Question: The James Bond movies are based on a series...
Wonder Boys; Michael Chabon Michael Chabon's memo to the world that writers have as much sex, drugs, and rock and roll as Mick Jagger. They just do it in tweed, with the lights out. And with a lot more self-loathing contemplation. It's difficult to read Wonder Boys and not make petulant comparisons...
"Adjectives on the typewriter, moves his words like a prizefighter" -- Shadow Stabbing, Cake When I'm actively working on my own writing, as I am currently, I read books in a slightly different manner than normal. I read not only for the story, but to study the craft. I did this while reading...
I think I'm prepared to say that it's unlikely I'll read anything as good this for the rest of the year. Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union won the Nebula Award a couple of weeks ago, as presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc. Which itself is interesting from...
Favorite books: Some of these were published in 2006, but when reading I'm always behind by at least a year, I figure--so I think it's safe to say that these were my favorite books that I read in 2007 (hey, they all start with "M"!): Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union Mark Helprin, Freddy...
