Julie and Julia by Julie Powell was recently made into a film starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. I read the book a year or so after it came out and wrote this review at that time. I may go to see the film, because I’m a big fan of both Ms. Adams and Ms. ...
Once again I find myself listening to another fantastic production from L.A. Theatre Works, and once again the performance and production as a whole are enthralling that I can let the rest of the world go away and enjoy a classic story. This time around I got the audiobook from the Audiobook Sync website and ...
When exploring the meaning of a text the inevitable result is that the reader will be incapable of separating the words written in the story or narrative from those that they may have read elsewhere regarding the life of the author of said story on a different occasion. In all cases an author’s work of ...
For centuries, John Milton’s depiction of Satan in Paradise Lost has fallen under two categories of critical analysis. One camp, which over the years included such literary and theologian critics as C.S. Lewis and Stanley Fish, has stated that Milton used Satan as a means to explain God’s mysteries to man. Another camp that had ...
”love makes life beautiful” always!… its depending upon how we showing, to whom we showing!…. Love is an emotion that nearly everyone has experienced at some time in their life. One would think that with such a familiar concept, researchers would agree on what constitutes love and how to measure it. That has not been ...
What I would like to discuss here is the meaning of poetry in the lives of women. Women often write poems about writing poems. (I have not found many poems of this sort by men.) Amy Lowell writes “…we’re a queer lot We women who write poetry... I wonder what makes us do it, Singles ...
Roger Smith’s latest thriller, “Capture,” is out now and the premise is just as captivating as his previous novels. The author recently stopped by to talk about his latest novel, his writing method and why his stories always take place in Cape Town, South Africa. Q – Thank you Roger. How are you doing? A ...
Literature has always been seen as the reflection of humanity, especially those works which are read over and over and often canonized. An author’s good representation of culture and life in a certain time and place, calls out to what we as readers know of our world and our time. Even if our surroundings and ...
Saint Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God has proven to be both frustrating and resilient. On the surface, there is no room to refute the argument on the basis of its validity. The argument is valid. Contention arises when one considers whether or not it can ever persuade someone to believe in God. ...
Everyone has heard the phrase “let your conscience be your guide”, and many people relate conscience to an angel and a devil on their shoulder telling them to perform and act that is right or wrong. Many people believe that the “superego”, developed by Sigmund Freud and conscience are the same thing: a Jiminy Cricket-like ...