In 2008, before my time taking part in the Cannonball Read, I read and loved Mark Harris’s Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. For those that are interested, that book covers the 1967 Best Picture Oscar race, cataloguing how that year’s nominated films – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde each highlight the changes both in Hollywood and in the culture. I suggest it wholeheartedly. When I […]
Paging Doctor Gregory House
Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain on Fire, went on my To Read List immediately following a review I read here on CBR7. A junior reporter for the Post begins having personality changes, mood swings and forgetfulness- symptoms she blames of having a cold, or the flu. When her symptoms persist she calls her gynecologist; she recently changed her birth control and is hoping what she is experiencing is related. She gets an MRI but there isn’t anything abnormal in her test results, however she returns to […]
Wall to wall tragedy, with nary a lasagna to be found.
Apart from The Emperor and the Assassin, this is a different beast from the other biographies I’ve been reading. Dispensing with the straight telling of James Garfield’s life, Candice Millard instead paints the portrait of an era. Taking place between the war that sundered the nation and the dawn of the new century, the era in which Garfield rose to prominence was nothing if not propitious. It was a time for momentous change and novel invention. The light bulb and the telephone came to prominence. […]
a free man
I like metalheads. I am one. My husband Dave, who is my best friend and personal hero, has introduced me to countless musicians, artists, bands and fans who have enriched my life and expanded my view of the world. Sure there are fatwitted folk in our tribe, like every other. The majority of those that I have met are intelligent, thoughtful and articulate people. Ask my friend Sarah who had a deep philosophical discussion with Mike from YOB and Garett from Secrets of the Sky during a break […]
A Family Affair
This is not your typical celebrity memoir. “All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.” Not my Father’s Son is the story of Alan Cumming’s time filming Who Do You Think You Are? in the […]
Seasons in the abyss
There is no doubt that Slayer was instrumental in creating the thrash metal scene in the 80’s, along with Metallica and the Bay Area bands Exodus and Testament. In their 3 decade long career they have gone on to influence so many bands, in and out of the scene. I’ve seen Slayer play live a couple of times, as it is truly a rite of passage for metalheads, and have my favorite line up (see below) but I don’t own any of their albums*. So as […]
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