Reviews

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Directed by Doris Dörrie

Have you ever had one of those moments when you needed all of your willpower not to smack someone upside the head? One Good Dog is the story of what happens when one man’s willpower fails and someone does get smacked. The most important day in Adam March’s life begins with a failed alarm clock, only gets worse, and culminates with a furious slap to his secretary. Predictably, his career and personal life immediately unravel during the ensuing legal battles.

The king's mistress is dead. Who killed her? A jealous queen? A scheming noble hoping to foment civil war? Or was it an unfortunate accident? The stakes are high, and so the King sends his foremost medical investigator to unravel the mystery: an investigator who just happens to be not only a doctor and forensic scientist but also, most unusually for 12th-century England - a woman.

Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

In Rosemary’s Baby Roman Polanski and cast deliver not just a great “scary movie”, but a great movie. The pervasive feel of the film is paranoia tinged with the eternal presence of darkness.

This is probably the fastest I've ever read a book. It only took one day (give or take) to read The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott. I adored it.

Sarah and Brianna have been BFFs since kindergarten. They've grown up together with Brianna seemingly leading the way.

The enigmatic Seraphin Monge, the central character of The Murdered  House, reappears in this sequel for only the first third as a living character, but his presence pervades the story and the actions of the two women who were most in love with him.  This is a dark, noirish tale, set in Provence and so atmospheric one would think it is the middle of the seventeenth century,

I have seldom been as disappointed in a book as this one.

About ten years ago around the holiday season, a paperback on sale in the bookstore, caught my attention.