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The one complaint however that I have about “Under The Dome,” is that I keep picking it up and then I cannot put it down. I just finished page 937 but somewhere around page 700 I cheated. I did what “real” book readers never do. I thumbed to the end of the book and read it to find out if the protagonist survived as well as a number of the fates of it’s cast of characters, both good and evil. I had to know. I wanted to brace myself for the moment their time came ( because something really bad was going to happen–that’s a given with King novels). Now I’ve gone back and much like knowing a spoiler from a filmed adaption, it has not ruined the story for me. There’s too much of it for that to happen and knowing what I know has only relaxed me a bit. One cannot stay in that state of suspension of knowing for that long. I just had to.
I imagine King would take that as an endorsement for his book. And that it is. Great book–especially for not-King fans.

The question de jour is: Is there a difference between having a closed committed relationship between three people and having an open relationship? That’s an intriguing and loaded question. Certainly there are many ways to view  polygamous relationships and I imagine each one is unique in it’s own way. The Split-Self series characterizes one such [...]

CLICK to embiggen the photos above! Above are photos of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, director Quentin Tarantino (shown dancing), Diane Krueger (shown with Tarantino and Pitt) and Krueger’s boyfriend, Jonathan Jackson–all at Cannes. Angelina Jolie has been a standout on the red carpet at Cannes over the past several years, from her bright citron Emanuel [...]

Thanks to JustinSlbk! The sixth Potter film, directed by David Yates, promises to be the darkest yet. It carries the tagline: “To know the future – return to the past.”  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince reunites the three young stars – Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as [...]

Spouse and I went to the high school parent open house Thursday night. Spouse was crotchety. Most of the teachers seemed excellent. One or two tried too hard but they only have 10 minutes to do their whole spiel. And we are full into having classes transfer to college credit and taking the test that [...]

It’s a bright and temperate day– makes me wants to pick up my book, “The Diana Chronicles” and take it with me out back, have a seat on one of the deck chairs and start my second hundred pages in it. Like a lot of people, I kept an interest in Diana (Official Royal’s Site) [...]

Falling Man: A Novel Don DeLillo I was planning on diving in to the Charles Schulz biography and I did start it but it seems so heavy after Falling Man which I read back-to-back with On Chesil Beach, which itself was definitely not a day at the beach, though thought-provoking and an absolute page-turner. “Schultz,” after reading a review [...]

Last week, I mentioned that I’d started reading On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan, one of the 100 best books issued in 2007, according to the New York Times Book Review. Set in 1962, the overarching story is of a newlywed couple on their wedding night but much more, it’s a study in the interior [...]

And there’s really no reason anyone should care what I think of it but I like it; it’s a compelling read, study of two young newlyweds on their wedding night in 1962. I read on the jacket blurb that author Ian McEwan “is the master clockmaster of novelists.” Nicely said and very high praise from… [...]

Graphic by Harvard Gazette Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Drawing on genetic research and his experience [...]