Despite never seeing the Tony Award winning musical I am unabashedly in love with the Hamilton soundtrack and while I plan to seek out Hamilton: The Revolution (as well as sell a kidney to see Hamilton when it comes to Dallas next year) I think Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton is a more expansive take on one of America’s founding fathers and I’m glad I started here. Lin-Manuel Miranda has made Hamilton a household name again after nearly two hundred years and Chernow’s biography played a big role in Miranda’s research. “Hamilton’s relatively short life robbed him […]
Misters Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford and Me
It is interesting to note that of these five presidents, only Eisenhower had a normal run as president- elected by the people and serving two full terms. Kennedy was elected in 1960 by the slimmest of margins, and his term lasted just one thousand days, cut short by an assassin. Suddenly, the vice president became president. Johnson was reelected the following year, but when the demands of the office and the causalities of the Vietnam War became more than he could bear, he chose not […]
“She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.”
Bel Canto opens at the birthday party of Japanese industrial titan Katsumi Hosokawa in the small, unnamed South American country that is trying to woo Mr. Hosokawa into building his next factory in their country. When Mr. Hosokawa declines the invitation, because he has no intentions of bringing his business there, the host country persuades famed opera soprano Roxanne Coss to sing at the party which in turn convinces opera fanatic Mr. Hosokawa to attend. Shortly after Roxanne Coss finishes her set the light goes out […]
“If you never get sadness, how do you know what happy is like?”
For the first time in months I don’t have any library books in my house so I am desperately trying to get through my TBR shelf before once again succumbing to the siren call of Barnes & Nobel. The Keeper of Lost Things was gifted to me during last year’s Cannonball gift exchange and I can’t believe it took me almost 7 months to read because it was an absolutely charming novel. Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles—Found, on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September. Forty […]
“Welcome to real spy work. Mostly tedious, occasionally exhilarating.”
I have been waiting to read The Alice Network for what feels like forever. I nearly bought it despite having an ever growing TBR pile on my bookshelves that I promised myself (well, really my husband) I’d pare down before buying anything new. Either way I’m glad I held out because I actually got my hands on the audio version through the library and it was a great listen. Kate Quinn weaves real history, namely Louise de Bettignies and her network of female spies, with fiction into a […]
Treat Yo’ Self to this perfect Summer read
I’m beginning to think it is a requirement for all Parks and Rec cast-members to write books and I am really OK with that. At this point I think Worst Chris, Rashida Jones and Jim O’heir are the only series regulars who haven’t published! Anyway– this review is mostly going to be Parks and Rec gifs. In the meantime, I am embracing “Treat Yo’ Self” because it will likely be on my tombstone. It’s my “Dy-no-mite!” My “Kiss my grits!” My “Norm!” My “Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis?” My “Yadda […]
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