Gilead and Lila
I recently finished Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize winner, Gilead, and its prequel, Lila. Gilead has been on my reading list for a while now, and it’s a really beautiful, contemplative book that I found very slow at times. The novel is…
Parallel Characters
I’m sure it’s the English major in me, but when I watch a new show or movie, I often notice connections to other shows or books. We watched The Breakfast Club again recently, and it hit me that Judd Nelson’s…
“Peaky Blinders”
I don’t like action movies, and science fiction doesn’t interest me, but give me a good gangster show, and I’m all in. Goodfellas is one of my favorite movies and “The Sopranos” will forever be in my heart. So when…
