THE TRESPASSERA BOOK REVIEW I’ve never liked crime novels, crime movies or even dressing up as a criminal on Halloween. However, this past year I’ve started reading Tana French. Last night, I finished The Trespasser. The main character, Detective Antoinette Conway, is a much-disliked member of the Dublin Murder Squad. To be fair, her […]
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GIFTEDMOVIE REVIEW Looking for a movie to take your mind off of real life? Gifted may fit the bill. When his sister dies unexpectedly, Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is left to raise his six-month old niece, Mary (McKenna Grace). Turns out, the niece is a math prodigy. Within a day or two of Mary’s arrival
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LAB GIRLBOOK REVIEW When someone in my book club chose LAB GIRL for our next discussion, I didn’t rejoice. With what is happening in the world these days, all I want to do in my spare time is eat Snickers bars and watch The Office re-runs. I was wrong. This is a terrific read. LAB
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ITALIAN SOUL FOODRECIPE How is your garden growing? Got tomatoes? Do you have more than you can use? If so, here is a recipe for you. It’s a quick tomato sauce that can accompany pasta, ravioli, pizza, shrimp and can be a base for any bean or squash dish—really you can use it on whatever your little
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THE BIG SICKMOVIE REVIEW A few nights ago, I dragged my husband to The Big Sick. He wanted to go to Dunkirk. But it was date night, for goodness’ sake, so I said, “No. Nope. No way.” Not wanting to engage in our own epic battle, Bruce reluctantly agreed to go to my choice. He
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FETCH A CALLING STARA BEDTIME STORY Photo Courtesy of Vrankar Klemen 0:00 / 0:00 Fetch A Calling Star FETCH A CALLING STAR, a bedtime story for children, was published in an anthology called Nightlight. FETCH A CALLING STAR Late one night Under the eaves In a beach cottage with no beach breeze, I
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THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRYBOOK REVIEW Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a slow start, but I kept pushing through because my friend highly recommended the book. I’m glad I did. The story is about Harold Fry, a 65-year-old man who receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy, his work associate of
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RAGIN’ CAJUN REDNECK GATORSMOVIE REVIEW Recently, I watched a terrible movie on the SyFy network: Ragin’ Cajun Redneck Gators. (Don’t judge me. I was having a low day.) A man dumps toxic moonshine into the local bayou, thereby creating mutant alligators that crave human flesh. These badly rendered, computer-generated reptiles use their tails to hurl lethal
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HIDDEN FIGURESMOVIE REVIEW Hidden Figures is a movie based on a true story about three African-American women who worked for NASA in the early days of the space program. These overlooked and under- recognized women provided essential mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. Faced with the racism and sexism rampant in
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MANCHESTER BY THE SEAMOVIE REVIEW How do you live out the rest of your life after your negligence causes the unthinkable to happen? Even though I saw Manchester by the Sea a couple of weeks ago, certain scenes still keep running through my mind. The movie is about forgiveness and the extension of grace, but
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