Patricia Abbott (pattinase)

Blackwater, Kerstin Ekman Long before the Scandinavian surge of crime fiction of today, a few Swedish writers caught my attention and o...

Movies, movies, movies. And the best of them was TOY STORY 4. Truly. But I also liked REMEMBER MY NAME, which was a doc about David C...

MY COUSIN RACHEL, Daphne DuMaurier The story takes place in the 1840s in Cornwall. Philip's whole life centers around his Uncle Ambr...

A friend has invited me to share an apartment with her on Treasure Island (FL) for a few weeks in Feb-March, which is very nice and I ...

Richard Wheeler passed away in February. Events caused me to first miss it and then neglect to post it on here. Richard would write to me...

Eesh-that will wake you up. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nicholas Roeg's 1973 adaptation of Daphne DuMaurier...

Enjoyed ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD although the final scene in retrospect is strange. Don't want to ruin it, but he evokes s...

This is the second time I have read this. The first time it was just because of its good reviews. More than Joan Didion's book on h...

The festival continues to be better organized every year. You can park your car outside of town and take a shuttle (they run every 15...

I saw another production of OTHELLO which I enjoyed. A really terrific Iago even though some of the other parts were not as strong. I th...

 and IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH. Jean Parker Shepherd Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller , radi...

My book group makes me happy. Between the seven of us we were able to suss out some stuff about EUPHORIA, which made me appreciate it more...

Looking for a baseball review I found this reviewfrom Al Tucher, way back in 2010.   THE GREATE ST SLUMP OF ALL TIME, David Carkeet ...

Saw WILD ROSE, which I liked less than I expected. It was like a documentary except it wasn't. Plus that Glascow accent was so dif...

Sandra Seaman’s Forgotten Book from 2008 THE QUIET GAME by Greg Iles To be perfectly honest, I've never written a book revi...

I never saw this film before and I always assumed it was written and directed by Cassavetes. But no, it is Elaine May and in interviews th...

 Forgive me for posting a few of Phil's books and this speech, but I wanted to share with you some details of Phil...

Three good movies this week. Steve O and I saw ECHO IN THE CANYON, which looked at the music coming out of California in the mid-si...

Andi Shechter has been a publicist, chat host, interviewer, convention-planner, essayist and reviewer. She lives in Seattle with far too m...

Went to a glass show, which was pretty darn incredible. Hundreds if not thousands of glass works from all over the world. Some of them ...