I really agree with StrokeSmart’s choice of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as the leading movie about stroke and am anxious to see Amour. I’m disappointed that Starting Out in the Evening isn’t included and recommend both the movie and Brian Morton’s novel. Top 5…
I decided during the election that Howards End would be a great book to reread. I was right.I learned while I was doing it that Zadie Smith's On Beauty was a retelling of Howards End, so I read that, too. I've got Kindle software for…
Just realized that I never reported that I read and enjoyed After Dark by Haruki Murakami. I wouldn't attempt to say what it's about, but like all the Murakami I've read—The Wild Sheep Chase, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,…
I should have been all over Wordpress yesterday. I have just arranged to receive a largish reimbursement for a newsletter I put together for Toastmasters, and I was pretty much settled on using part of the money to buy a Kindle. But when I was reading the morning newsfeeds, I…
Just finished Angler and remain shocked at the portraits I've read of Bush and his administration. Now I've got to deal with our financial crisis in my own way. I'm moving on to The Defining Moment to get more of an idea of how…
Angler is the book that's claiming most of my attention now, though E. B. White's One Man's Meat and Tess of the D'Urbervilles are also open on my shelf. I haven't done an update in quite a while. After I…
Just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. I fell under the spell of the PBS series earlier this year, and decided I should find out more about Mrs. G. The novel is no better than a minor work, but I was really disappointed that the novel had been so modified…
Last week a friend sent me a link to a radio interview with Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke and made a full recovery. I have since bought her book, My Stroke of Insight. It has been amazing listening to her and reading her book. I…