February 19 & 26, 2007
The article on the TV show “24″ about how popular the show is with the military was enlightening. I’ve never watched it, but it seems to feature a lot of torture, and not just by the ‘bad guys.’ What I found most interesting is that a delegation of Army officers and [...]
Archive for March, 2007
The Anniversary Issue
Posted in Popular culture, The New Yorker on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Style Issue
Posted in The New Yorker on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
March 19, 2007
How I hate the Style Issue of The New Yorker! It used to just be a fall event, but now it is showing up in the spring as well. What a bore! As I’ve said before, I dislike the trend toward specialty issues, whether it be fashion, fiction or whatever. I read the [...]
Ideas
Posted in books on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Globe has a great Sunday section called “Ideas” from which I cull many suggestions for future reading (see page on right). I always enjoy Katherine A. Powers’ (hereafter referred to as KAP) quirky book reviews. This week she reviewed The Terror by Dan Simmons which is about two British ships lost in the Arctic in the [...]
A modern-day “Persuasion”
Posted in Literary Links, books on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jane Austen in Sarasota by Paula Marantz Cohen has the plot of Persuasion, with Anne Eliot transformed into Anne Ehrlich, a high school guidance counselor at a wealthy Westchester school. Having just gone through the college search and selection process, I found it absolutely hilarious. She is witty and insightful about the parent/child tensions and [...]
My new blog
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, here I am on WordPress after stints on blogger and Vox. I have been blogging about books and life since August 2005 and I hope I will manage to stay put on this location for awhile. So far, I like WordPress because it allows you to save drafts and then have them dated when [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to WordPress.com. My old blog at Vox (see related link) had the tagline: “How do I know what I think until I see what I say,” by Saul Bellow, which sums up for me the beauty of blogging. The habit of writing and clarifying your thoughts through writing is given shape and even some [...]
