Posted in Movies on Aug 31st, 2008 No Comments »
21 is based on the true story of six MIT students who create a system of counting cards to beat the odds at blackjack in Las Vegas. The group wins millions, but it’s not long before the casinos start to pick up on their game.
Rating: ***
tags:drama, jim sturgess, kate bosworth, kevin spacey, USA
Posted in Books on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Ina May Gaskin
Gaskin, a midwife, has attended over 2000 natural births and provides insight into a woman’s natural ability to give birth without major medical intervention. The first part of this book tells the stories of the many women Gaskin attended to during their labors and births. The second half deals with natural birthing and […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Haruki Murakami
Part mystery and part fantasy, this Japanese novel was a good read. The narrator, who never gives his name, is thrown into a strange quest of finding a mystical sheep. He has one month to find this unique sheep and what follows is a detective story that is both engrossing and weirdly believable at […]
Posted in Books, Food on Aug 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Julie Powell
After turning 30, and hitting something of a third-life crisis, Julie Powell decides to take on a project very few sane people would attempt. She dubs the project, the “Julie/Julia Project” and sets the lofty goal of cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in 365 days. […]
Posted in Movies on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Funny movie about one woman’s desire to have children. Tina Fey learns from her doctor the she has a “T”-shaped uterus and has a one in a million chance of ever conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy. She decides to hire Amy Poehler to be her surrogate. While the story had its bizarre moments, most […]
Posted in Movies on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Rating: **+
tags:**+, anthony hopkins, crime, drama, ryan gosling, USA
Posted in Food on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
We hit a bit of a bump in the road with our CSA. We were also on vacation, but, basically, the week or so before vacation, we were pretty much all veggie and greened-out, so we gave away a lot of our food. We returned from vacation and were greeted with some new veggies - not the same old leafy greens we had been eating for the first several weeks. We got eggplant, […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Ann Patchett
One of Patchett’s greatest strengths as a writer are the characters she develops. In a way, she reminds me of Anne Tyler. This book begins with two of the main characters Parsifal, the magician, and his lover, Phan, dead. Phan passes away first, and shortly after his death, Parsifal, though gay, marries Sabine, […]
Posted in Movies on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Quirky and funny at times, but definitely not one of my favorite Woody Allen films. Three couples get together at a country home and all three men in the film fall for Mia Farrow and go through different ways to prove their love to her.
Rating: **
tags:**, comedy, mia farrow, romance, USA, woody allen