When you’ve loved doing something your whole life and that thing stops giving you pleasure, you can be thrown into an existential crisis. This is what happened to me with reading.
For 2-3 months recently, I …
Weird Casting Conversation
Some of you know Mr. PCN is a casting director. I sometimes help answer phones. Yesterday, I had this conversation.
Man on the line, in heavy accent: “Yes. I have Japanese ladies. You looking for Japanese …
Movie Review: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
I still have to see many more awards contenders, but Silver Linings Playbook is an early favorite. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, charming, moving, wacky, and…well, you’ll have to see for yourself.
Bradley Cooper plays Pat, a bipolar …
ANNA KARENINA Review + Notes from Q&A with Joe Wright & Keira Knightley
I attended a Variety screening Monday night of Anna Karenina, and stayed afterward for the Q&A with director Joe Wright and Keira Knightley. It’s the kind of movie that benefits from such a chat.
For the …
Nerdy Special List November 2012
Here are the November titles we enjoyed:
From Jen at Jen’s Book Thoughts:
The Right Hand by Derek Haas (Nov. 13, Mulholland Books) is an action-packed spy thriller. Haas introduces his American spy, Austin Clay, in …
Movie Discussion: SKYFALL
OK, don’t faint from shock that there’s a new post up today. I wasn’t kidnapped by apes or vacationing under a rock. Life has just been full, of goodness and other things. I had family …
Literary Conversation Starters
When you read in public, do people often come up to you wanting to discuss your book? It doesn’t always happen to me, but it did tonight while I was at a cafe reading Michael …
Book Review: THE SECRET KEEPER by Kate Morton
Kate Morton is one of the few authors I think can get away with writing fat, 500-page novels because she fills up those pages with a lot of story. I was a bit surprised, then, …
You Will Not Believe This Story
As some of you might know, I’ve been doing a play called Year of the Rabbit at Ensemble Studio Theatre LA for the past couple months. The experience has been more rewarding professionally and personally …
Fun at Bouchercon 2012
Last week was Bouchercon, but it was also my fourth blogoversary. While everyone thought they were attending the world mystery convention, I knew it was really my blogoversary party, where I celebrated with some wonderful …
Nerdy Special List for October 2012
I’m finally getting this list up because we’ve all been super busy, but it didn’t stop us from reading some good books. Here are our recommendations for this month:
From Jen at Jen’s Book Thoughts:
I decided …
Book Review: TALKING TO THE DEAD by Harry Bingham
Despite having loads of fun photos to share from Bouchercon, and wanting to post about something mind-blowing and fantastical that happened to me over the weekend, I just haven’t had any time to write or …
Movie Reviews: PITCH PERFECT and BUTTER
This Friday, Oct. 5, Pitch Perfect will open wide, and Butter will be in limited release and available as VOD. They both feature highly competitive people attempting to win a title, and both made me …
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