Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (Book Review by Deb Smouse)
Imagine that the gods of Greek Mythology were real…and not only real, but living in Modern-Day London.
September - October 2008 | Harvest
Imagine that the gods of Greek Mythology were real…and not only real, but living in Modern-Day London.
I’ll admit it: I’m getting older. In fact, it’s only a few short months until I will celebrate my 40th birthday. As we age, our skin loses a bit of its elasticity…and for someone like me who is prone to very dry skin, winter is really hard to stay moisturized.
It’s only a short time before her execution and we are in her prison cell. We are in Paris and the year is 1917. We are with Margaretha Zelle, aka, Mata Hari.
Matt White is a singer-songwriter and he isn’t. He writes and sings all his own music; he plays the guitar and piano and even sings his own backing vocals. However he doesn’t sound like a singer-songwriter usually does.
It’s a classic many of us read as a requirement in high school: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it my Junior Year of high school and re-read it in my early thirties when my oldest chose to read it for a book review.
Steve Carlson makes music that is a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, with a splash of funk, some R&B, and a lot of soul. His music is a fabulously crafted tapestry of genres knitted together with Steve’s honeyed, passionately emotive, deeply textured voice and phenomenal musicianship.
What can be worse than being almost forty and single? Being thirty-nine and divorced, that’s what! Then again, when you marry just so you don’t have to date any more, is it any great surprise that you end up living with your mother and her collection of dachshunds.
Sons Of William make the kind of rock you want to hear when you’re slumming it in a saw-dust-on-the-floor bar, in the deep-south, sitting, feet-up on a table, drinking bourbon.
As an official member of the Over the Hill gang (that is, women over 50), I find that Mother Nature is doing some serious re-arranging on my body parts. Things that used to be slim are now plump and things that used to be plump (in a good way) are now slim.