Well….yes, and it’s called LOVE, FOOTBALL AND OTHER CONTACT SPORTS. According to the book jacket, “love and football are just the tip of the iceberg in this poignant and raucously funny series of interconnected stories.” Set in small-town Wisconsin, the stories follow a group of football players, their girls, their friends and their enemies through [...]
Archive for January, 2007
You want me to read a football novel???
January 30, 2007Submerse yourself in Victorian London
January 24, 2007How can I describe The Meaning of Night: A Confession?
A force of nature, perhaps? It pulled me along like the tide…just one chapter, I’d think – an hour later I’d come up for air and shake the fog shrouded London scene from my head. Author Michael Cox has written a rich story of obsession and [...]
The Sopranos not your cuppa? Check out Monarch of the Glen (DVD series)
January 22, 2007The BBC television series Monarch of the Glen was photographed in the Scottish Highlands, and the actors who make up the extended family at the Glenbogle estate include standouts Susan Hampshire and Alistair McKenzie. For the McKenzies, family conflict is present, but on a kinder gentler level than that in the Sopranos family. British actors [...]
iPod essential artist
January 8, 2007If you are adding musical artists to your new Nano, and you like folk, gospel, blues, or the jazz standards, check out one of the Library CDs recorded by the late Eva Cassidy. Although she is not easily pigeonholed in any one of these musical categories, her music is shelved in the Jazz section of [...]
