Let's Do the Twist The Night Before By Wendy Walker The most impressive bit about The Night Before is the author, Wendy Walker. I don't know her, but I know someone who does (which prompted me to read this book) and her life's path to arrive at being a best-selling author is impressive. Walker holds degrees … [Read more...]
Book Review: Newtown: An American Tragedy
Can't Do It Newtown By Matthew Lysiak I can't read this book. I tried. Then I tried skimming. I'd read a paragraph here or there and it would just wreck me. I honestly don't know who can read this whole book. Lysiak is a good writer and he does his best here, but it's just brutal. The book's first pages tug … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Kitty
Me? Ow. The Kitty By S. Flynn Oh dear. A man buys a house in Enfield and gets married to a woman who quickly leaves him but there's a cat there that he adopts and names Kitty. Kitty is a good cat and gets the man through his difficulties. The man takes in a few other abandoned cats and comes to very … [Read more...]
Stepford Wives (2004)
Step Away... Very Far and Very Fast Stepford Wives, 2004 My god, what hath they wrought? The remake of the 1975 classic movie is a complete waste of time and writing about it is even more of one. But... here we are anyway. Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler... okay, … [Read more...]
Book Review: Fish in a Tree
Fish Out of Water Fish in a Tree, Lynda Mullaly Hunt (2017) My 4th grader is a decent reader. It's not his preferred leisure activity, but still... he's a decent reader. One thing he doesn't read is this website - let alone book reviews on this website. So I forgive him for just happening to nonchalantly mention a … [Read more...]
Stateside (2004)
Mad Love Stateside, 2004 Warning: This review contains clips with very bad words. You're not going to watch this movie and I'm here to tell you that you probably shouldn't watch this movie. But I watched this movie. A movie, supposedly, "based on a true story," although from everything I've read "based on" is … [Read more...]
UConn Basketball Books (Pre-2000)
U-C-O-N-N! UCONN! UCONN! UCONN! (basketball books) Dozens of books have been written about UConn's storied men's and women's basketball programs. After all, they won nearly 20 national championships together and in 2004 and 2014, they both won. I assume many are not dissimilar to many others. So I will read them, … [Read more...]
Book Review: Hidden Corners of New England
Another Dark Entry Hidden Corners of New England, David Yeadon (1976) What's the point of reading through and writing about a travel guide almost as old as I am? I'll tell you what the point of it is: because it's a travel guide almost as old as I am about a state that I think I know as much about as anyone. … [Read more...]
Auntie Mame (1958)
Auntie Awesome Auntie Mame, 1958 I love this movie. My wife loves this movie. If you don't at least like this movie, you are dead inside. And while it's only peripherally a "Connecticut movie," it's "Connecticutness" is enough to warrant a page on this website. It's a long movie with many twists and turns. … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Courage of Sarah Noble
So Noble The Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice Dalgliesh (1952) Not being from Connecticut, I'd never heard of this book until 2021... about 40 years later than would have been the ideal target age for it. And I don't really know if Sarah Noble is very well known outside of western Connecticut - more specifically New … [Read more...]
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