Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Tribute to Rootlessness
On April 3, one day before Roger Ebert died, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away from illness at the age of 85. …
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English Vinglish (2012)
If The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is from the outside looking in, then English Vinglish is the reverse shot, bringing …
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
How do you get to Paris from Bombay? Food, Food, Food. What better transport is there than a light vehicle …
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Outsourcing old age, that’s the idea. Imagine in the distant (or not so distant) future, you retire to a warm …
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, Book Two (Part A)
CLICK HERE to read my Movie Review of Midnight’s Children *** While Part One of the book is a macro …
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, Book One
CLICK HERE to read my Movie Review of Midnight’s Children *** In his introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition of …
Midnight’s Children Read-A-Long
Midnight’s Children Read-Along has begun. Here are the post to: Midnight’s Children Read-Along Begins Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, Book …
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
In December 1994, a small team of cave explorers came upon a cave near the valley of the Ardèche River in …
A Moveable Feast (Restored Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
Reading A Moveable Feast is like walking along the sea shore. On the fine sandy beach you see many attractive …
You’ll Never Catch Up
Comments from my last post “Movies to watch with Mom” had me running back to the 60′s, 50′s and even …
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, Part 2
Part 2 of Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together presents the networked self. Turkle has been called ‘the anthropologist of cyberspace.’ Her …
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, Part 1
Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, the founder …
