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Picture It (Sicily, 1948)*
I have recently discovered that Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers is being made into a TV series by HBO. I talked about how much I enjoyed this novel in our podcast on A Wrinkle in Time. I’ve watched the trailer, and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Picks, Kirt, Opinions, Uncategorized
Tagged Blood Meridian, Brad Pitt, Cormac McCarthy, Frankenstein, HBO, Henry James, John C. Reilly, Kenneth Branagh, Mary Shelly, Max Brooks, movie adaptation, No Country for Old Men, The Coen Brothers, The Englishman's Boy, The Golden Girls, The Leftovers, The Portrait of a Lady, The Road, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, Tom Perrotta, TV adaptation, TV series based on book, World War Z
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Write Reads #13 The Far Side of the Sky by Daniel Kalla
Tania was a plucky heroine this month. She screwed up her courage and read some historical fiction. She appears to have done little damage to her psyche. Listen in and find out how she and Kirt felt about this “novel … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, Kirt, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged China, e-readers, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Henderson's Spear, historical fiction, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, L.M. Montgomery, Ronald Wright, Shanghai, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, The Englishman's Boy, The Far Side of the Sky by Daniel Kalla, the holocaust, The Little House on the Prairie, World War II
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The Research Rabbit Hole and Its Dangers
In several of our podcasts Tania and I have discussed the problem of information overload in some of the books we’ve read. I think that it’s a topic that deserves a post of its own as it has been weighing … Continue reading
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