September 2014

  • Jacob Mendelsohn All Knowing All Seeing in All My Goodbyes

    I tried to find a song or video the summed up the tone of Jacob Mendelsohn’s book without the religious assumptions but Godspell’s “Day by Day” captures the daily conflicts of his characters most perfectly. I spent my summer getting to know Wilson Vincent (who was once accused of a terrible crime), Laurie (who used…

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  • Neil Gaiman’s Ocean At The End of the Lane

    Thanks to PBS, every English school boy I read in the first person sounds like Gian Sammarco’s Adrain Mole, the title character from the ITV series based on Sue Townsend’s book, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. The protagonist from Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean At The End of the Lane is no exception. He may…

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  • Page of Ultron

    In “The Next Avengers” Ultron has taken over the world and it is up to the children of the original Avengers to stop him. Several Goodreads critics gave Marvel Avenger’s Age of Ultron just one or two stars, but like a few other critics, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Among the…

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