A month or so ago I was browsing through the audiobook collection at the Greenville Library, which I find surprisingly extensive, when a kindly elderly woman approached me. “Are you looking for anything in particular?” she asked. She looked like a librarian. “Oh, just browsing,” I said. “Have you ever read any of the Mrs….
In my last post I commented that Lauren and I hardly ever get to go to the theater. Well, that very night we went to the theater. It wasn’t planned, but Lauren’s mom was kind enough to babysit the boys, so Lauren and I went out to eat and then to catch a movie. Stranger…
We rarely get to the theaters these days, what with the two little bumpkins and what not. A trip to the movies would cost us a small fortune. But we almost ponied up the money to see Cars when it hit theaters earlier this year, which is to say we really wanted to see it….
As noted in a previous post, I only recently saw the second Godfather movie. What prompted my seeing it was the audiobook of the novel The Goodfather by Mario Puzo, which I had been listening to and only just finished. The audiobook was a full cast reading. Most audiobooks are read by a single narrator,…
Lauren and I started reading this aloud to each other last year and for a reason I can’t remember we stopped reading it halfway through. It had nothing to do with the content of the book. It’s a young adult novel, so it’s clean. And we certainly didn’t put it aside because it was boring….
Mission Impossible III (aka M:i:III, or as I like to say it: Capital M, colon, lowercase i, colon, roman numeral three) starts off pretty gruesomely. Tom Cruise is handcuffed to a chair, being interrogated by a very menacing villain (the versatile Philip Seymour Hoffman) who is holding a gun to Tom Cruise’s wife. Then, while…
