Professor Jane Darlington has a genius level IQ, is a master physicist and desperately wants a baby. However, Jane’s super smarts made her feel like a freak growing up, and she doesn’t want any child of hers to experience the same thing. Plus she’s currently single, and not really looking for a relationship. She does need to find herself a baby daddy, though, and preferably one who’s a bit stupid, in the hopes that this will produce her a child with a thoroughly average intelligence. […]
A book about friendship, motherhood and pies
Veronica Russo lives in Boothbay Harbour in Maine. She’s a waitress at the local diner and also makes insanely delicious pies, that are very popular among the people in town. She even has pie-making classes. When she was sixteen, she got pregnant and had to give her baby up for adoption. She still feels as if some of the people she grew up with judge her for this, but is trying to get on with her life. She can’t help but think about the baby […]
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose
I dare you to read this book and not picture Kyle Chandler in your head for all 433 pages. Go ahead. I dare you. It can’t be done. And really, that’s fine with me. It only made the book more enjoyable for me. The One & Only is the story of Shea, a 30-something woman in a Texas town that is all about it’s local college football team. Shea works in the athletic department at Walker, her alma mater, and never misses a football game. […]
Veronica Mars, I’m watching you
In the summer of 2004, I found myself at home on maternity leave with a newborn baby and a lot of sleepless nights. After I went through my entire Tivo’d cache of The Issac Mizrahi Show (seriously, the best talk show ever. I mourn it every day.), I was dying for new TV to watch. And I was rescued by my friend Amy, a tv critic, who had a pile of DVD screeners for the upcoming fall TV season that she was finished with. I […]
Can you ever be just whelmed?
So this year, I’m not doing the whole Booker Prize Longlist. After last year’s epic slog and some disappointments of a very large magnitude, I approached this year’s list with a more discerning eye. I immediately discounted three of the titles, while noting with varying degrees of smuggery that I owned another two of the list and had already readone of them. A fourth title, this one, was also sitting on one of the bookshelves in the flat, but it didn’t belong to me. It […]
Raging Egos would be more accurate
I have a film degree and yet it took a friend buying me this book for my birthday to get me to read it. Shameful. What’s even more shameful, is I haven’t seen quite a few films that are discussed here, but the films are really secondary to the tales of how they were made and the changes they wrought on the film industry. If you’re even remotely interested in how some of the modern classics made it from page to screen and exactly what […]
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