Top Five Shows I Wish Would Return
As a kid I didn’t watch all that much television, at least not by today’s standards. My Mom was vigilant about keeping us from becoming video zombies. She trained us to look at the paper TV guide every week…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Category bookish and blogish
More Lemon Cake: Why a Chair?
This is slice number three in a small series of discussions over the book The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. You can find other pieces here and here. *****LOTSA SPOILERS ALERT***** NOTE: This is not a transcript of the speaker phone…
Aimee Bender: Author, Teacher, Ladle, Giver
You may or may not have seen my review of the book The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. It was penned by Aimee Bender and was the topic of our book club’s discussion dinner this month. As mentioned before, a new…
Feast of All Saints (book review)
Trying to review a book so broad in scope and rich in flavor as Anne Rice’s Feast of All Saints is mildly paralyzing. I could tell you how much I liked it. (It was thoroughly enjoyable.) I could describe to…
State of Fear (book review)
First, let’s agree that this book has all the elements that make for a good read. Great characters, plot, complexity, tension, and a reasonable conclusion, plus a readable and entertaining style throughout. I mean, the flavor served up by Michael…
Car Show Culture
I entered this marriage with a perspective that cars were nothing more than modes of transportation. Learning through Handsome, then, the scope of artistic expression and passion and also the varying skills required in his car world, was eye opening. …