EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN Everyone Brave is Forgivenis a book you should read if you would like to nourish your brain. Just about every sentence is deliciously well written. The novel is set in London and Malta during World War II and addresses the themes of class, race, and the morality of war. Eighteen-year-old Mary, […]
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A WOMAN IS NO MANBOOK REVIEW “I was born without a voice, one cold overcast day in Brooklyn, New York. No one ever spoke of my condition. I did not know I was mute until years later, when I opened my mouth to ask for what I wanted and realized no one could her me.
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THE STORY OF ARTHUR TRULUVBOOK REVIEW Are you looking for a pleasant summer read? Consider The Story of Arthur Truluvby Elizabeth Berg. Each day, eighty-five-year old Arthur Moses eats his lunch by the graveside of his wife, Nola, who died six months before. As he walks into the cemetery and passes other headstones, he vividly
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DEAD TO MESERIES REVIEW The trailer for the Netflix series, Dead to Me, caught my attention. In it, we see a cheerful neighbor delivering a casserole to Jen, whose husband was just killed by a hit and run driver. The neighbor says, “Jeff and I can’t imagine what you are going through.” A totally deadpan
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INHABITING YOUR CHARACTER:PONINT OF VIEW Streetlight Magazine just published my article on point of view. You can read it below. Have you ever used virtual reality goggles to watch a movie? Imagine that the film starts off in an African village. Ahead of you, you see a hut and can almost smell the smoke rising
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SPARKS OF JOY 0:00 / 0:00 Sparks of Joy My Facebook feed is full of photos of shipshape garages, orderly closets and neatly stacked undies. Marie Kondo, an organizing consultant, encourages people to sort their belongings. And, if an object does not spark joy, toss it. Some of my belongings do not elicit a spark
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FLYING ATTACK OWLS Courtesy of The Daily Progress 0:00 / 0:00 Flying Attack Owls As a child, I never wanted to sleep in a room with an open closet door. When I was about five, my parents took us to visit friends in Buffalo, New York. I bunked with Jimmy, also about five, who pointed
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LEAVE NO TRACEMOVIE REVIEW My husband and I watched Leave No Trace last night. He hated it. He thought the movie was bleak and sad. He felt furious with the father during the entire film. I loved the movie—the nuanced acting, the plot, the camerawork, the casting choices, the understated and unexpected way that the screenwriters,
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALKMOVIE REVIEW Every Friday, I read the movie reviews in The Washington Post.The articles usually help me find great films and steer away from bad ones, with one notable exception: Adam Sandler’s Punch Drunk Love. They liked it. I loathed it and loath is too nice a word for how I
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VIRGIL WANDERBOOK REVIEW I have the attention span of a fruit fly. Whether in a movie or book, pacing is important to me. When a movie is slow, I’ve been known to hit fast forward, then read the subtitles as I zoom to the end. Virgil Wanderstarts slowly, but I hung in through the first
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