Entries from August 2009
Tags: Health and Happiness · Literary Fiction · Movies Worth Watching · Non Fiction · Social Psychology
The Secret Life of Bees
” (2002), spiritual writer Sue Monk Kidd’s first novel, tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl escaping from her father and discovering what happened to her mother. It’s a page-turner, populated with wise women and stupid men, and told in the voice of the girl. This voice, well crafted by Ms. Kidd, carries the story, and, unlike her second novel, The Mermaid Chair
, Ms Kidd keeps this story moving. (I couldn’t read The Mermaid Chair, and my posting Stephen King’s Backstory Well Done in Carrie explains why.) Read more... (2 words, 2 images, estimated 0 secs reading time)
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Tags: Literary Fiction
Tags: Health and Happiness · Non Fiction
When Mireille Guiliano visited the United States as an exchange student, she got fat. Returning to her native France, she was so chubby that her father exclaimed she looked like a sack of potatoes—devastating to a teenager. Her book French Women Don’t Get Fat tells us how this happened and how she returned to her slim French self. Read more... (336 words, 3 images, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)
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Tags: Health and Happiness · Non Fiction
August 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I just watched Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)*–for the second time. I was thoroughly entertained, but I realized, watching it, that I didn’t have a way to evaluate its veracity. I wondered, for example, if Mr Moore’s FBI interviewee knew what actually happened or if his criticisms were biased because he was “out of the loop.” When Ricky Martin couldn’t fly, was that before or after the Saudis left the country? I don’t know, because Mr Moore uses facts judiciously and juxtaposes events to lead me to believe what he wants me to believe. He’s disingenuous. Read more... (245 words, 6 images, estimated 59 secs reading time)
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Tags: Movies Worth Watching
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“I don’t have time to be married!” wails Julie in Julie and Julia, a movie about Julia Child and devote Julie Powell. What Julie really should have cried, was “I don’t have time to work all day at my stupid government job!” 
” (2002), spiritual writer Sue Monk Kidd’s first novel, tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl escaping from her father and discovering what happened to her mother. It’s a page-turner, populated with wise women and stupid men, and told in the voice of the girl. This voice, well crafted by Ms. Kidd, carries the story, and, unlike her second novel, 
, Ms Kidd keeps this story moving. (I couldn’t read The Mermaid Chair, and my posting 
As I was browsing my garden for strawberries just now, I remembered Mireille Guiliano’s number one rule: Excellent food only! In her book 
