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These are the books I read this year. Six thousand nine hundred and sixty one pages of bookish goodness, in order of recommendation (within each category)…
Fiction:
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
City [...]
I distinctly remember thinking I was both fat and ugly just before the fifth grade swim social at age eleven. I was probably less than five feet tall and eighty something pounds. How absurd is it that you have to sit down with your eight-nine-ten year old and starting giving her ammunition to [...]
Giacomo Puccini – “O Mio Babbino Caro”
Who knew that the most interesting show I’d see on television this month would be on HBO Family and aimed at infants? Certainly not me. At any rate, browsing channels today I happened upon a hidden gem: Classical Baby.
Mix the essential classical music (Tchaikovsky, Satie, Schumann, Strauss, Puccini [...]
Press play (wait for it…): Tangerine Dream – Love on a Train
The O.C. was fantastic this week. A charming concoction of 80s nostalgia, 90s glitz, and 00s cynicism. Unlike three weeks ago’s sickening Spiderman re-creation, the director included just enough of the elements of Risky Business that worked (the music, the catch) without making [...]