Archive for June 2010

Dark Places: A Novel

Have you ever read a book that made you flinch as you were reading it? That was the case for me with Dark Places. Even though what I was reading made my stomach turn at times, I kept turning the pages—almost reading with just one eye opened and the other scrunched to the [...]

The Rough Guide to Manga

Manga have exploded in popularity in the U.S. in the last twenty years; growing from a hard to find cult item to spilling across the shelves of major bookstore chains. A shorthand description might call Manga the Japanese equivalent to comic books in America, but that would be a disservice to the breadth and variety [...]

10,000 Ways To Die

Spaghetti Western is one of the most delicious terms ever coined to describe a film genre. It was invented in the pages of Variety, the entertainment industry bible, as a mocking way to describe a wave of new westerns washing up in America in the mid-1960s from that most unlikely of sources Italy! Today fans [...]

Quick, cheap comfort food

Now that I am juggling a career and motherhood I find myself dreading the question - what’s for dinner?  I have no time and no energy to cook elaborate meals and found a cookbook that has helped me immensely in the kitchen. It contains over a hundred recipes, including slow cooker meals which i love [...]