This novella by Tolstoy was made into a play and performed by our local theatre group last year. The best part of the play was the playing of the sonata by two wonderful musicians in period costume; however, I don’t think the material was really right for a play. The play proceeded exactly as the [...]
Archive for March, 2006
The Kreutzer Sonata
Posted in Tolstoy, books on March 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
World’s Fair and other stuff
Posted in History, books on March 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Devil in the White City, by Eric Larson
Well, I didn’t care much for this book, either the premise or the writing. Not that he’s a bad writer, I just hated the coy way he kept alluding to evil or disasters to come, “only Poe could have thought up the rest”, stuff like that. It [...]
