Category Archives: Reviews: Books, Movies, Music, TV

This one’s a page-turner, while raising serious questions about America in the early 21st century, how we live and who actually controls things.
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Dave Eggers has consistently chosen somewhat off-the-beaten fields for his book length projects. See my review from August, 2013, of Hologram For The King, for a full summary of his oeuvre. In general, he juxtaposes ordinary, contemporary Americans with an … Continue reading →

The Panopticon: A Novel, by Jenni Fagan, arrived on our shores last July. Ms Fagan, a Scottish poet and mother of a toddler, provides a disturbing, yet ultimately optimistic debut novel. 4.5/5 stars Continue reading →

one of the best films I’ve seen in the last year. 4.5/5 Continue reading →

Searching through the North Atlantic for “hard ice”, a Big Science team has found a man encased in ice. But this is no hapless sailor or prehistoric seal hunter. Rather it was Judge Jeremiah Rice, 38, who fell overboard while accompanying a daring exploratory journey out of the old sailing haunts just north of Boston. Continue reading →

This week, I finished a book and movie, which both explore a well-trod path, encounters between the Atlantic and the Orient. England and the US have ruled the world for the better part of four centuries. Throughout that time, we’ve … Continue reading →

Jon Snow (a bastard traitor), Arya Stark (a pre-pubertal girl), Tyrion Lannister (a dwarf with a disfiguring facial scar), and Daenerys Targaryen ( the product of three hundred years of inbreeding to keep the bloodline pure) are without question the coolest people in this show, and had damn well better join forces and dump the scheming Lannisters into the sea, later rather than sooner, as I’d like this show to go on for about five more years. Continue reading →

Oh, and did I mention there are Zombies in this show? Continue reading →