The trailer for Julie & Julia is out and it looks to be a funny, funny romp. Starring Meryl Streep (5′ 5″) playing Julia Child (6’2″) is a feat (pardon the pun) in itself. “Based on Two True Stories” the movie version dishes up the best of Julie Powell’s memoir Julie and Julia (cooking her [...]
Tomorrow I’m headed off to San Francisco to spend the weekend at the beach with ten plus fabulous friends. It’s an annual event. We call ourselves the Stinson Beach Babes. Each year I go, I return home with aching cheek muscles from all the talking and laughing. Our friendships go back some 30 years. Back [...]
The movie version of Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper is due out June 26th. I posted previously that book fans were hopping mad over the decision by the film’s producers to change the ending. Save My Sister’s Keeper!! is a Facebook campaign that was initiated after one fan attended a Picoult reading and heard [...]
What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month and do your body some good, than to receive poet.org’s poem a day in your inbox. Poetry has been used for therapeutic purposes in health and healing for centuries. One of the more interesting studies is the effect that poetry has on blood pressure. Apparently, rhythmic vocal [...]
Lots happening this month in Jodi Picoult (PEA-koe) land. On Monday, USA Today ran a great profile piece on her idyllic sounding family life in Hanover, New Hampshire; Handle With Care, her 16th novel was released on Tuesday; and the movie version of My Sister’s Keeper starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin (Fans are apparently [...]
If you’ve never read Moby Dick, you might want to first start with Nathaniel Philbrick‘s true account In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. After all, the sinking of the Essex was the inspiration for Melville’s Moby Dick. Variety reports that both books are currently in development (Hollywood speak for coming [...]
February 27, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Last night, I ventured out to hear Abraham Verghese read from his new book Cutting for Stone at Elliott Bay Book Co. You know a very special author is in town when Rick Simonson is on hand to greet and introduce the author of the evening. Unlike some authors that seem to travel through town [...]
February 19, 2009 – 11:52 am
This past week I went with a couple of friends of mine to see ‘The Reader’ which is up for best picture. Note: If you have not seen the movie and plan to do so, you might want to skip reading the rest of this. Only one of us had read the book byprior to [...]
October 7, 2008 – 6:10 pm
Out now… 9/12 NIGHTS IN RODANTHE based on the book by Nicholas Sparks 9/19 THE DUCHESS based on the book GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE by Amanda Foreman 9/26 BLINDNESS based on the book by Jose Saramago 9/26 CHOKE based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk 9/26 MIRACLE AT ST ANNA based on the book by [...]
I usually only blog about movies that are adaptations of a book I’ve read and liked. I’m taking artistic license by recommending a wonderful French movie with a literary theme written by the prolific director Claude Lelouch that I saw this past weekend. “Roman De Gare”, roughly translated “airport novel”, is a fun romp set [...]
