Middlemarch Book I: What are siblings for?
Dorothea and Celia Brooke remind me of the Dashwood sisters Elinor and MariAnne. Like MaryAnne, Celia, being the younger, holds …
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‘The Rider’ is Poetry on Screen
“The Rider” opens this weekend in selective cities. If it’s screening in your area, don’t miss it. What is a …
“I am an immigrant” Oscar winning director Guillermo del Toro speaks for millions
Who isn’t from a lineage of immigrants in this relatively new continent of ours ‘discovered’ just a few hundred years …
The Portrait of a Lady, Sequel, Remake(?)
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James First, thanks to Bellezza’s open invite to a read-along, posting the photo of John …
Don’t just drive past Three Billboards
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri is a ‘Coenesque’ feature with Fargo (1996) star Frances McDormand. This might well be one of the …
The Shape of Water is all Enfolding
In his review of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Roger Ebert described it as a fairy tale for adults. …
Top Ripples 2017
The following is a list of books, movies, and events that stirred up the most ripples for me in 2017. …
Reading the Season: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
For the tenth year, I’m sharing a Christmas read here at the Pond. For the first time, it’s a book …
Mudbound: From Book to Screen
The Book Mudbound is Hillary Jordan’s debut novel, published in 2008. It won the Bellwether Prize for fiction, an award founded …
When is a window not a window?
Arti was in NYC for a week in September. It was Friday afternoon free admission time when hundreds lined up …
Golden Fall
Two years ago around this time, I drove across four New England states searching for fall foliage. Red was the …
The Last Days of Summer
It has been noted that the drive from Lake Louise in Banff National Park up the Icefields Parkway north to …
