The Flurries

October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Snowman wakes before dawn.  So my new read, ‘Oryx and Crake’ by Margaret Atwoood, begins.  First sentence.  I am excited to turn the pages of this novel, and see if it bewitches me more than Eco’s The Mysterious Flames of Queen Loana, which I finished reading yesterday.  While MFQ was delightful to read, I still stand [...]

Glorious Sun Gone

October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

     Quentin Tarantino’s new movie starring Brad Pitt is called Inglorious Basterds (yep, that’s how it’s spelled), and Pitt is happy to roughen up his good looks once again for us as a hunter of Nazis.  We have to wait a while as the shoot is still on in Berlin.
   But what I really want to say is [...]