I have a passion for both memoirs and religious stories, so it seemed like Mennonite in a Little Black Dress was written for me. Yet the overall narrative left me cold. The author, Rhoda Janzen, has had an interesting and occasionally tragic life. And she chronicles it all with a humor and good cheer that […]
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This little Game of Thrones thing sure is exploding, isn’t it? I did a piece a little while ago on Event Books, and next Tuesday’s (ONE WEEK!) release of the fifth book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dance With Dragons, has me in a tizzy unseen since at least the last […]
Ed. Note: My Cinema’s senior staff writer Rachael disagrees with Kelly’s thoughts on Bridesmaids (found here). So we thought we’d publish her article too, and let you decide. The last time this disparity happened we ended up with two of our most popular and most controversial articles ever (Black Swan: Loveand Hate). Read on after […]
True Blood is not a show built on sophisticated plotting. It is a show built on charisma (I’m looking at you, Eric), audacity (I’m looking at you, crazy Marianne-inspired orgies), and romance. The plots themselves rarely make perfect sense, and often seem to be just crazy plot twist built upon crazy plot twist, merely for […]
We’ve been trying to find the most fitting way of introducing My Bookshelf readers to our newest site, My Music. Lo and behold, the perfect answer fell into our laps. Here, in a joint-feature with My Music, is the best song ever written! (okay, slight exaggeration, but it’s fantastic and wonderfully literarily dorky).
If you think you’re too cool for this song, you are definitely not cool enough for this website!
Long lost Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson re-joined his ageing comrades on Friday in the middle of their performance of erstwhile Burger King jingle “I Want it That Way” at their joint concert with New Kids on the Block (as “supergroup” NKOTBSB). I will warn patrons of this site right now, I adore the Backstreet Boys, […]
NBC may be burning the episodes off in the summer instead of giving the anthology show a proper chance (hence, the melancholy), but over the last few weeks I’ve come to really enjoy the web of interconnected personal tales its been weaving. With longstanding My TV favourites Becki Newton, Greg Grunberg and Constance Zimmer as […]