The “longlist” for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, awarded for “the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the [British] Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland,” has been announced. I’ve read two of the 17 candidates. I was not impressed with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, finding it at best average […]
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Time to rant about something that sets me off about this time every year. I have two daughters in high school athletics this year. At the fall sports meeting last night, the dreaded “fundraiser” arose like a zombie from hell. In fact, two zombies from hell. Long story short, I now have two teenage girls […] Interesting watching the space shuttle Discovery land through the eye of infrared cameras this morning. Even more interesting, though, is how, after almost 100 flights in 24 years, the NASA spin has moved the shuttle from a workhorse to an “experimental space vehicle.” Even with that status accorded it, let’s hope the grounding of the […] Another installment in the intermittent posting of recently-viewed films. (On a 5 star scale listed alphabetically). Europa, Europa (1990) ***1/2 A German film by a Polish director that won Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1992. An interesting take on the Holocaust, supposedly based on the true story of a Jewish boy who manages […] Todd Epp is putting his blogs on semi-hiatus for good reason. Best wishes to him. Setting aside for now my rant about the term “podcasts,” C. Max at The Millions takes note of the increasing literary podcasts. Caryn Rose expressively lists five reasons she travels to see Springsteen. The Best Page in the Universe […] |
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