Divers and Sundry

I don't know what I expected from Elizabeth George 's A Great Deliverance , but I didn't expect this kind of grim, explicit devi...

Read Robert Frost's poem in honor of the first real snow of the winter. Watch The Snowman :

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1999 of Stanley Kubrick , legendary film maker. I have blog posts on the following of his films: P...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1952 of Paramahansa Yogananda , guru and author of Autobiography of a Yogi . The book is available...

A Draught for a Dead Man by Caroline Roe is the 6th book in a series of mysteries about a blind Jewish physician in medieval Spain. from th...

Eye on the Trail reports: It was DeeDee Jonrowe, and nobody was more surprise than she to be the winner of the GCI Dorothy Page Halfway awa...

Dr. Bob McDowell, general manager of the Jazz Lover radio station WUMR at the University of Memphis , has died. obits: The Commercial Appea...

Frontline's 2004 program : Get Rich Slowly has a review.

by Napoleon XIV

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies is the 6th book in Alexander McCall Smith 's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series , and I've love...

I had forgotten about the Book to Movie Challenge until it was too late to finish it, but I did finally get around to reading the 2nd book ...

Psalm 23 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3...

I got the new edition of Ridley Scott 's Blade Runner -the one that contains 4 different versions- as a present from The Husband, and w...

Flight of a Witch is one in a series by Ellis Peters about Detective Inspector George Felse. I'm enjoying this series so far, having r...

The Iditarod Begins Today. KTUU has coverage.

The Elder Son and I watched Doom tonight while The Husband and The Younger Son were at the University of Memphis Theatre watching Edwin Dr...

Mike Smith , lead singer of the Dave Clark Five , has died. Over and Over : Dave Clark Five-Over and Over Add to My Profile | More Videos G...

Monsieur Pamplemousse Stands Firm, by Michael Bond , is one of a series by the author of the Paddington Bear books. While the Paddington Be...

Last Call , by Tim Powers , won the Locus Fantasy Award and the World Fantasy Award in 1993. This book is fascinating: the Fisher King pl...