Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace
I am not sure what made me pick up this book from the library. I can’t find a review in the Saturday Reviews, and I don’t have the book on my TBR list. I am not a baseball fan. I had never heard of author Joseph Wallace, although he’s published several nonfiction books mostly on [...]
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Pearl and May Chin are sisters, growing up in Shanghai, 1937. The two young ladies are also Beautiful Girls, a phrase that carries a specific denotation in the modern, cosmopolitan culture of Westernized Shanghai. Pearl and May are models whose portraits sell everything from cigarettes to soap. The girls are living a fast, sophisticated, and [...]
Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant
According to this list of bestselling books of the first decade of the twentieth century, Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant was one of the bestselling books of 1900. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, also published in 1900, was not a best seller. Still, the books have much in common. Unleavened Bread is “the story of [...]
Books About Teddy
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough. River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. Theodore Roosevelt is one of my fascinations. I read McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback back in March, but I never got around to reviewing it. It was a lovely narrative biography of the young Teddy [...]
100 Movies of Summer: North by Northwest (1959)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: Ernest Lehman Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin Landau. Karate Kid says: The movie had a fairly interesting plot, but I didn’t like it that much because it didn’t confuse me. I thought it was predictable. Betsy-Bee says: The movie wasn’t really scary, but it got my [...]
100 Movies of Summer: Unforgiven (1992)
Director: Clint Eastwood Writer: David Webb Peoples Starring: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, RIchard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Frances Fisher Mom says: When writing about the movie Red River, I said, “Dunson shoots or threatens to shoot a few men in cold blood basically for just getting in his way or challenging his authority, and [...]
100 Movies of Summer: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Director: Otto Preminger Writer: Screenplay adapted by Wendell Mayes from the novel by John D. Voelker Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Arthur O’Connell, George C. Scott Mom says: The actors in this movie were of particular interest: Jimmy Stewart is always good. The unassuming, but brilliant, country lawyer who outsmarts the [...]
100 Movies of Summer: Adam’s Rib (1949)
Director: George Cukor Writers: Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin Starring, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy Brown Bear Daughter says: Good movie. Very feminist, which is not necessarily a bad thing. However, the feminism was sort of undermined in the end when Spencer Tracy fakes tears in order to get Katherine Hepburn back, saying later that he [...]
100 Movies of Summer: Double Indemnity (1944)
Director: Billy Wilder Writers: Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novel by James M. Cain Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson The entire movie is narrated by insurance salesman, Walter Neff, as he confesses into a dictaphone the terrible crime he has been led to commit. His partner in murder [...]
100 Movies of Summer: Red River (1948)
Directors: Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson Writers: Borden Chase and Charles Schnee Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan Karate Kid says: This movie was about some cowboys on a cattle drive. They live next to the Red River, which is the river that makes up the border between Texas and Oklahoma. [...]
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