After seeing the musical Wicked, I welcomed the opportunity to read Gregory Maguire’s Son of a Witch. It’s the story of Liir, a young man who confronts the possibility that he is the abandoned son of the Wicked Witch of the West. Found on the point of dying, he is magically restored through sex and […]
These promo photos for “Eulalie and the Great March,” by Flora Stohr-Danziger, were taken by Duncan McAllister. I am directing the Saturday ‘Experiment,’ part of the New Ideas Festival 2007. For more information about my show on March 10, or on the other shows in this three week series, go to the website: New Ideas.
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Gabrielle encourages Eulalie. .
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Thanks to “Anonymous” for your comment. This is a site on the Internet that could have been designed for me. Use it to name your own cereal. I’ve chosen the obvious but you don’t have to. Try the link and litter your blogs with your own crispy, crunchy confections: http://www.cerealfreak.com/ Irreverent and Moral ReviewsL’Apocalypse à
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I’m a fan of Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe radio show. His stories are entertaining, usually funny and they have a quality I struggle with in my own writing: heart. It’s situation comedy but he makes you care. McLean’s characters, snug in their tight-knit community, are always involved in each others’ lives. It’s a welcome antidote
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The Big Over Easy is a fun book, set in the same universe as Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next novels. To be fair, I’m not an expert mystery reader. I don’t care enough about the puzzle and seldom solve it ahead of the sleuth. I read for the setting and the characters. This book delivers both
My latest procrastination read is Joy Fielding’s Puppet. This is a breezy thriller about a sexy lawyer who immigrates to Florida to escape her past. When she gets a call from her first ex-husband, she is forced to return. Her mother is in jail for shooting a complete stranger in a hotel lobby. A former
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My motherboard died but thanks to my charming husband and the local computer repair shop, I can print, email and surf again. Thank goodness! I’ve been looking forward to chomping my electronic Wheaties. On today’s menu: recommendations so good for you, they count as an extra dose of fibre. Now reading: Country of my Skull:
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