I love movies almost as much as I love books, and when a great book is made into a film, all the better, even if these adaptations rarely elevate the material, with a few exceptions. I thought The Hours (click to read review), Where the Wild Things Are, Remains of the Day, The Silence of the…
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This week I decided to reread a couple older books along with my pop culture book pick of the moment, Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern. This page-turner, a meditative glimpse of a suburban neighborhood beset by tragic circumstances, tries to dig beneath the surface of guilt and innocence and finally reveals how both can warp…
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Here is the second half of my Wickaninnish Inn experience . . . Covering The Wick’s restaurant, The Pointe, which has the knockout view . . . The Pointe Restaurant overlooks the ocean and the crescent beach – a great surfing spot – where eagles land and entertain diners on the rocks below, fishing .…
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The early July vacation really soothed the soul. On Chesterman Beach . . . The Spot for surfing in Tofino . . . A place I’d love to return to . . . I first heard of The Wickaninnish Inn when my longtime friends, Martin and Dale, traveled there during the winter for storm-watching season.…
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So, one of the most influential writers of the 1960s passed away early this month at the age of 77, and I remember Theodore Roszak for more than his most famous book. I first heard of Theodore Roszak when I picked up a mass market edition of his novel, Flicker, a book about film,…
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Zippy is out with the robin redbreasts as the cherry and pear trees bloom – I swear he’s looking at one right now 😉 Jo Nesbø’s The Redbreast So much reading and so little time, that’s what I’ve been told, and I’ve been reading a lot of old and new books. I stayed up late…
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Happy 4th of July weekend . . . watch the fireworks and marvel . . . I’m off to the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino, BC for the week and will try to take a lot of photos . . . May the colors pop ‘ – ) Please subscribe to a writer’s…
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Too little time to read all the great books I want to read… Zippy and Eartha Kitt’n woke up in the morning in time to say: CHEESE ‘ – ) Here is a list of 25 books I want to read as soon as I can: 1 Room by Emma Donoghue 2 The Glass Castle:…
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It’s time for another great summer read, but first here’s Zippy crossing his own bridge to Treasure Island. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton In the past two weeks I read six of John Sandford’s Prey novels, and travelled every step of the way into the dark corners with his main character, Lucas Davenport, from Hidden…
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