Saturday Snapshot - My Mum Enid during World War II

Saturday Snapshot is a weekly meme hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. Alyce says: "To participate in the Saturday Snapshot meme post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky below. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don’t post...

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It's Indie Bookstore FridayEvery Friday I post a picture of an independent bookstore along with a link to their website. I love these rare breeds that are becoming increasingly harder to find by the day and just want to show my support. Feel free to play along and show your support for independent bookstores, post a picture and add your url to Mr. Linky. It can be your local bookstore, the indie you work for, around the corner or across the country....

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The Carrie Diaries gets a small screen adaptation

Do you blame them? All the people making bundles of money from our Sex and the City obsession?A couple of years back Candace Bushnell wrote a 'pre-quel' so we could all see the young Carrie. And naturally they would want to make a tv show based on the book. Judging from the pictures that started showing up last week, I have to say that Anna Sophia Robb does seem to be channeling Sarah Jessic Parker- er - I mean channeling Carrie. She did...

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Should I read The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks? Answer the POLL on the right.Vulture has a great little interview with Gillian Anderson about her take on Miss Havisham in the screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations coming to Masterpiece Theatre. The first installment is this Sunday, with number two the following week.Here's a snippet...Miss Havisham is a complicated woman. The way you play her, with that singsong voice, adds...

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Welcome to Wondrous Words Wednesday

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a utterly wonderful meme hosted by Kathy at Bermuda Onions Weblog. The purpose is to share words that are new to us. This week I only have one word because the book I'm reading is pretty breezy; most of the words I didn't know were Indian like last week's punkahwallah (the person who operates the fan) or chowkidar (gate keeper) and they're not really words you'll be including in conversation. My word of the week again...

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CONGRATULATIONS! My Give Away Winner Announced

THANKS to all of you who played along in the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Give Away andCONGRATULATIONS to the winner Ron Oliver.Ron wins a copy of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarrealong with a notepad cu...

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From Flynetpictures.com: Hugh Jackman filmed while shooting Les Miserables movie

This amateur or papparazzi type video posted at Flynetpictures.com, from the Les Miserables set catches Hugh Jackman doing a couple of takes. Anyone have any idea what the tail end of the song he's singing is? I don...

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It's First Paragraph Tuesday

Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the opening paragraph of a novel she decided to read based on that paragraph. That is definitely the case for me with the opening of Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot. Here's my take on the book. I wasn't 100% sold but I'm working up the courage to tackle his Pulitzer Prize winning Middlesex. Anyway, here's the opening of The Marriage Plot...pretty enticing, wouldn't you say?To start...

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Does Hugh Jackman look miserable in Les Miserables?

Wow! The first pictures from the Les Miserables movie - no one seems to be calling it Les Miz yet - have started showing up on the net - I found mine on screenrant.com and collider.com. I think Russell Crowe looks very Master and Commander as Javert while I found the first pictures of Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean shocking. I don't know what I was expecting?! It makes sense that Valjean, before being released from prison would appear with shaved head...

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New pictures from the set of Lawless aka The Wettest County in the World

 Shia La Boef and Tom Hardy costar in Lawless based on the book The Wettest County in the WorldWhen I first read that the book "The Wettest County in the World" written by Matt Bondurant was being adapted for the screen, I thought, hmmm that's a gloomy and depressing title for a movie. It turns out the "wettest" refers to alchohol and prohibition during the depression era, not the weather at all but it still sounds like a downer...

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Jessica Biel joins The Making of Psycho

Update: 3/26/2-12According to Deadline Jessical Biel has committed to the second female lead in the Sacha Gervasi-directed Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho. Biel will play Vera Miles, who played Lila Crane in the 1960 classic. It's got to be some  kind of tribute to the iconic status of Hitchcock that a 52 year old book about the making of Psycho is now being made as a film. And that there is such a buzz about it. The book, The Making...

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Being Flynn: My take on the movie

About the MovieStarring Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne MooreDirected by Paul WietzThis is a very belated 'take' on the memoir turned movie, Being Flynn, originally entitled Another Bullshit Night In Suck City written by poet Nick Flynn.I am not sure why it's taken me so long to write this; I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago. I think initially I was just too raw and wrecked to write about it. It's a very compelling but very...

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The Hunger Games: My review or Sunday, Bloody Sunday

We went out in the rain on this Sunday morning to see the 9:50am showing of The Hunger Games. I didn't even know they ran movies before 10 o'clock in the morning! We were surprised to find the theatre at least 3/4 full.  Strange to say as we usually avoid the crowded and overhyped, but somehow we have ended up part of The Hunger Games record setting $155 million opening weekend!Would I be too crass if I were to say it was bloody good fun?...

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Sunday Snippets: Don't forget to enter the GIVE AWAY

You have a couple more days to enter my GIVEAWAY for a free copy of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY by John LeCarre and notepad cube. You have until midnight March 27 to enter. I'll pick a random winner on March 28th.Variety reports that The Hunger Games is going to break $150 million - my husband Mark and I are heading out to a 10am showing. Unheard of us to do on a Sunday morning!I've just started reading the first Maisie Dobbs book by Jacqueline Winspear....

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My Saturday Snapshot is a Buddha's Hand

Saturday Snapshot is a meme hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. To participate post a photo that you have taken then leave a direct link there. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. According to an article in the L.A. Times, "Shoppers usually stop in their tracks, jaws hanging down, the first time they see...

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Welcome to Indie Book Store Friday

Welcome to "Post a Picture of an Independent Bookstore Friday" for lack of a better title!  To show our support for independent bookstores, I'm asking fellow bloggers to post a picture  of a bookstore with the store's website and/or contact info. After you've created your post, add your url to Mr. Linky so we can all sample various bookstores. The bookstore can be your own bookstore, the store where you work, your favorite place to...

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What's in The HUNGER GAMES name?

I couldn't resist! Whetting your appetite for The Hunger Games, Miriam Krule has an article in BrowBeat, what Slate.com calls their 'culture blog'. It's all about the derivation of the names author Suzanne Collins uses in the book AND CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS!There are many shocking elements in The Hunger Games, the dystopic young adult seriesby Suzanne Collins—it is, after all, about kids killing each other. Once you let that sink in,...

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Watch the first trailer for Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson!

I just saw this trailer for Cosmopolis at AroundtheNetworks.com!  It looks pretty intense. I posted about David Cronenberg's screen adaptation of the Don Delillo novel last November and vowed to put the book on my TBR list. But I didn't! I still have plenty o' time because the film starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Paul Giamatti doesn't come out until May 23.Don't forget to enter my GIVE AWAY for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ...

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It's Wondrous Words Wednesday!

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy at Bermuda Onion, where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. I'm excited because this is my first time participating!I've only encountered one unfamiliar word in the book I'm currently reading; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach. I will say I'm enjoying it so far, so much better, for what I'm currently in the mood for anyway, than her Tulip...

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GIVE AWAY, Around the Networks, and more

Don't forget to enter my Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy GIVEAWAY!!!I'm so honored that Alex Tucker asked me to write a column for his entertainment website, AroundtheNetworks.com! The article is up today, I hope you'll take a minute to check it and the website out. Read my very short piece about Mark Harmon and Certain Prey,  A HUNGER FOR HARMON and visit Around the Networks. THANKS!I hope you'll participate this Friday when I 'host'  Post...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy GIVEAWAY

Gosh, I almost forgot!Two amazing films both out on DVD  and Blu Ray today. I saw them in the theatre last year so I will link to the reviews I posted back then. Remember it's usually only the BluRay editions that are carrying the extra features we've come to know and love. GIVEAWAY! I have one copy of the movie tie-in edition of the book, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre, plus a Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy notepad cube...

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