Patricia Abbott (pattinase)

We are now subscribers to Film Struck, which gives us access to hundreds of films, foreign and classic Hollywood. This was the first film we...

We enjoyed listening to Kevin play his guitar at Freddy's on Saturday. The kids seem to have a fun time playing. It is mostly heavy me...

(from the archives) le0pard13 is the internet moniker of a father of two, spouse to one, who blogs out of The City of the Angels. He ow...

https://markhstevens.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/q-a-64-patricia-abbott-i-bring-sorrow-other-stories-of-transgression/

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/23/will-there-ever-be-another-writer-like-philip-roth/

Megan came out for two days. It was nice to have her around although for too short a time. We saw a rather bad movie, she installed ...

 THE LAST GOOD KISS, James Crumley  Crumley’s detective hero/antihero is C.W. Sughrue,is  a war veteran who handles low-level P.I. ...

Deborah Kerr and Robert Donat play two naive people who marry without much in common. The war breaks out and both of them enlist. (She in th...

http://www.akashicbooks.com/a-good-day-for-redheads-by-patricia-abbott/

RBG, the biopic of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, which was more like a fan letter than any sort of critical study, but so what. Maybe she dese...

I am a big Larry Watson fan and LET HIM GO did not disappoint. It was a great followup to books like WHITE CROSSES and MONTANA: 194...

Do you know Andy never received an Emmy although Don Knott was well rewarded? That is indicative of voters not understanding the real hear...

Happy that my son stopped over for a surprise dinner the other night. And also happy he takes such pleasure in helping coach Kevin's...

TICKET TO RIDE This was the first Sam McCain book I read and what a pleasure it was. All of Ed Gorman's novels are a treat t...

Barbara Vine in this case. Gerald Candless is a famous British writer who dies suddenly much to the sorrow of his daughters and puzzl...

A very strange little film that was too violent for our tastes. A hitman that uses a hammer as a weapon? Phoenix does a decent job of ma...

Yesterday was as cold as February. But it looks like it will warm up considerably this week. I managed to make myself drive around my ne...

  THE P LASTIC NIGHTMARE , R ichard Neely (Ed Gorman from the archives) I've written before about Richard Neely. He ...

I did not get as much out of this book as I should have. I know scads of people who loved it yet I found it too depressing. Still it ...