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NOS4A2: Thoughts
Joe Hill is someone that, as a bookseller and horror-lover, I love to tell other people about. As a general rule he seems to be very active on Twitter and he has a great sense of humor. All of that is...
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Skyfall: Review
James Bond, I have to admit, has been something of a hard figure for me to pin down. I want to like him. i understand that he is an idea that has spanned 50 years now and that his various contributing...
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Django Unchained – Review
The Before: I really believed walking in to see, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained that what I was going to see was something that I had seen before. I thought that Tarantino had mastered his style...
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Top 5 Books 2012
Because I read books occasionally and have opinions I thought I’d throw a top 5 books of 2012 list together. I get tired of seeing books like Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and E. L. James, Fifty Shades of...
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My Week With the Nobel Prize (winning book for Literature)
Mo Yan’s Life and Death are Wearing Me Out is one of those books that are far more intimidating due to the reputation of the Nobel Prize than it deserves to be. Some books make take one hell of a...
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Electrico W – Review
Electrio W, which I found out is named after a train line in Lisbon, is an interesting look at forbidden love. Not forbidden in the sense that people can’t do it, rather that they can’t have it, and...
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Retro Review: Young Adult
This is the story of Mavis Gary: a writer squirming to understand her role in the world. She is at the end of an old success (her series of YA books is being discontinued) trying to grapple with what...
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Retro Review: Midnight In Paris
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s comedy is the story of Gil Pender, a timid writer who thinks himself misplaced in time. He longs for the days of old, the golden age, and thinks as many have about...
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Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
If I’m going to be honest, I have to say I was at most intrigued by Oz the Great and Powerful before seeing it. Not excited. Not totally psyched, but intrigued. Watching the teaser trailers a year ago...
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Beginners: Retro Review
Beginners staring Ewan Mcgregor, Christopher Plummer , and Mélanie Laurent was a touching story about people who can’t seem to let themselves have a whole lot of fun. From the beginning, the tone of...
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Joyland – Review
Reviews for Stephen King’s work are always hard for me to write or think about. First and foremost he’s my favorite author. I know that isn’t anything original, there are millions of adoring fans who...
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Pacific Rim – Review
So, here’s the deal, you already know if you’re going to like Pacific Rim or not. The movie hasn’t made itself scarce, it isn’t trying to be subtle. It isn’t hiding behind glossy trailers of voice-over...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Review
Seems like whenever I’m in dire straits, looking for something interesting in a sea of boring books, Neil Gaiman comes out with a new novel. I tend not to buy into his hype, I liked the Sandman and...
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Inside Llewyn Davis or, “And what does the cat think of this?”– Review
As with all of my reviews there are spoilers here. Inside Llewyn Davis, the brothers Cohen’s most recent film is a bit of a slog. The Director’s efforts in past films have afforded their work a...
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The Wolf Of Wall Street – Review
So, I’m a little late to the party, whatever. Being late to the party may have benefited me in a way I did not anticipate. I was able to read opinions and reviews of The Wolf of Wall Street before...
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Stuff I’ve Been Reading: January
It’s been the better portion of this year since I went through anything I was reading. As an earlier post states, I got bored with it. It was hard to keep any sort of concentration on stories that...
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Stuff I’ve Been Reading: February
I realize at this point, and to be fair the first time I wrote this post I knew it too, that Nick Hornby has a monthly article in The Believer titled Stuff I’ve been reading. This leads me to a couple...
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