Tuesday, January 28, 2014

THE FOX EFFECT How Roger Ailes Turned A Network Into A Propaganda Machine by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt, and Media Matters For America

Finished Mo 1/27/14

The title says it all!

Link to Media Matters For America
http://mediamatters.org/

Sunday, January 19, 2014

THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

January selection for The Classic Book Club
Finished Mo 1/13/14

Also saw the 1982 BBC Masterpiece Theater presentation from Netflix

DRINKING- A LOVE STORY by Caroline Knapp

Finished Sa 1/18/14
Father psychiatrist; mother artist
Caroline and Rebecca are twins
Father married before and had a son with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Link at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Drinking-Love-Story-Caroline-Knapp/dp/1480564060

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME- A YEAR OF PASSIONATE READING by Sara Nelson

Finished Mo 1/6/14 Day after the huge and frigid Blizzard of Sunday, January 5, 2014
I created a 'wishlist' on my library account to check out some of these suggestions

BEING RED- A MEMOIR by Howard Fast

Finished New Years Eve Mo 12/31/13

TEA & TRANQUILLISERS by Diane Harpwood

Finished Su 1/5/14

Read during The Coldest Blizzard of January, 2014   More than a half foot of drifting snow and temperatures many degrees below zero with wind chills of negative 30 or more. I had a bad cold, never left the house, and read this rather slim memoir in about four hours.