I saw two events at the Book Festival this past week. One was a talk by James Shapiro, a Shakespeare historian. He was discussing his new book, Contested Will, which is broadly about all the theories concerning who wrote Shakespeare. Shapiro is firmly in the Shakespeare was Shakespeare camp, as am I. And I was [...]
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Edinburgh Book Festival
Posted in books, tagged 1599, 1606, Contested Will, Edinburgh Book Festival, history of Scotland, James Shapiro, Shakespeare on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Parenthood: The Big O
Posted in books, Parenthood, television, tagged Crosby Braverman, Julia Braverman, Max Braverman, Parenthood, Sarah Braverman, The Big O, The Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I watch this show and think that I should find it hokey, or annoying, or cheesy. But I really don’t. It’s good. I’m constantly surprised. I love the Max storyline. He’s definitely the child I have the most interest in. I found this week, though, that I wanted more information about what the counselor was [...]
New book!
Posted in books, tagged Blackout, Connie Willis on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I picked up a copy of Connie Willis’ new book, Blackout, last night. It’s her first since 2002, and it’s a time travel book, which puts it in the same world as To Say Nothing of the Dog and Doomsday Book. Both good reasons why I can’t wait to pick it up. I have, however, [...]
Woohoo!
Posted in books, scifi, tagged Blackout, books, Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, sci-fi, science fiction, scifi, To Say Nothing of the Dog on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, in setting this blog up properly, I went around visiting the sites of some of my favourite authors so that I could post links for the two people who are out there reading this. (Hi!) And as I was skimming through Connie Willis’ website, I discovered that she has a new book coming out! [...]
