Twenty years ago, Katherine Neville’s novel The Eight was published, becoming one of the first Ballantine books to literally defy categorization. It was a swashbuckling adventure, a historical mystery, a puzzle, a romance, and an epic, with elements of fantasy and a style that was almost (but not quite) literary fiction. Today, we’d probably classify it as “magical realism,” or maybe we wouldn’t.
15-year-old Reggie lives with her father and little brother in a small town where all the houses are old Victorians, and there’s a bookstore devoted to horror and the occult. She should know, because it’s where she works after school.
When it comes to scent, I tend to favor perfume oils rather than eau de toilette or eau de cologne. The alcohol freaks me out, and I don’t like the way many such scents - even the expensive ones – smell “perfumey.”
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting San Francisco for a writing conference. On the second evening, nine of our group decided to meet for dinner. After wandering down Chestnut Street in the wind for what seemed like a half hour, and was probably really only ten minutes (I was cold and hungry), we stumbled upon Izzy’s Steaks and Chops off of Steiner St.
In her most recent book Life Class Barker returns to the same time period and themes but from a significantly different angle. The main characters Paul, Kit and Elinor are dragged from the world of art into the war, as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were in the previous trilogy, but this time the visual arts are concentrated on rather than literature.
This brilliant movie is sure-fire proof that Carrell does the serious as well as the funny.
Martha Carrier was hanged as witch during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, but the time leading up to the trials and Martha’s hanging are told in meticulous detail from the eyes of her daughter, Sarah.
‘Back in the day’ the X-Files phenomenon was huge. For nine full seasons, viewers sat glued to their TV screens as Mulder and Scully hunted monsters, chased demons and risked their lives to uncover the truth behind the government conspiracy.
Amy is the owner of Brownstein & Associates. Her job is to put other people in the spotlight.
Josh is a piano playing singer/songwriter with jazz in his soul and a mission - to keep helping the City of New Orleans - in his heart.
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