“It will stay between us, just you and me. I can even turn off the recorder if you want. But I have to have your answer. I have to know what you want. I have to know if you want to keep him.” “No,” Harold said. “Not for all the world. But what choice do I have?” I watched the first few episodes of the ABC TV show Resurrection a few years back starring Red Foreman and the other Eric Foreman so the plot of The Returned was […]
Theater of the Absurd in the Mediterranean Theater
Catch-22 has infiltrated the American vernacular and is considered a classic that everyone should read. . . and it took me ages to get through. I picked it up in March and put it down a few days later because all the circular reasoning and time hopping at the beginning. I started it again at the end of May and finally finished it, I must say it gets better towards the end although it gets much darker in tone. “Sure, there’s a catch,” Doc Daneeka replied. “Catch-22. […]
“As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.”
You Know Me Well is an LGBTQ YA book that Nina LaCour & David Levithan coauthored after three years of back and forth. The acknowledgements say, “It is safe to say that neither of us in October 2012 imagined that the hypothetical book we were talking about would be completed the weekend of (a) Pride Week when we were both (b) in San Francisco right after (c) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage rights for people like us.” The probably had no idea their […]
Eighties Nostalgia Overload
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.” Ready Player One has been on my TBR list for a while now but the upcoming Spielberg movie adaptation raced it to the top of the pile- I could see my husband wanting to see the movie and I wanted to read it first. This is pretty heavily reviewed already on CBR so most people probably know the gist but here goes..: In the not to distant future, year 2044, […]
“After all, in this life we do not know what lies before us.”
I picked this one up after reading a mediocre review here on CBR, so I don’t know why I was surprised that it took me two weeks to slough my way to the finish line. First of all, the title is misleading because the daughters’ stories receive no more attention than their parent’s courtship, Alexandra’s medical drama, Alexey’s hemophilia and the dependence Alexandra began to have for Rasputin. The daughters, their personalities, romantic interests and other facts about them are presented, it just doesn’t feel […]
“every man’s watchman, is his conscience.”
I don’t remember much about To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s been over a decade since I read it, and I regret not re-reading it before beginning Go Set a Watchman. I kept trying to remember if Henry, Dr. Finch and Alexandra had factored into the first book or were new characters to replace Calpurnia, Jem and Dill. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch has returned home to Maycomb, from New York, for her annual two week vacation. Her lawyer father, Atticus, is in poor health and being minded for by his […]
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