November 2011
Julian Fellowes wrote the script for Gosford Park, though why I’m telling you that I don’t know, since I’ve never seen the movie. Skip the movie: read this novel. It’s absolutely hilarious. Snobs is about a blue-blood actor who runs around among the upper classes in England and, in the process, introduces his friend Edith [...]
September 2008
~ buy this book ~ I first read Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude in college. Years later, what’s stayed with me is a fascination with magical realism and one story about Márquez. When he finished One Hundred Years, his wife Mercedes pawned her hair dryer and the electric heater in order to [...]
November 2005
You know when you’ve had a really miserable day? There’s a million reasons why this can happen, covering everything from love to children, work and money. Well, I was having one. It was so bad that I felt as if misery were buzzing at the corner of my ears like background noise all day long. [...]
June 2005
First the romance: The Color of Light by Karen White I read one of Karen’s earlier books, and I still remember reading faster and faster, until finally I was speeding like a bullet train that had sprung the track. I cried and cried, reading that book. The good news is that there’s no reason to [...]