January 2008 Archive

Psychotherapy stories. I can't seem to stop reading this Yalom guy—his writing makes therapy concepts actually understandable to regular people instead of drowning you in clinical jargon like most shrinks do. After devouring his previous work...

Rarely do I hit the cinema two days running, but the Télérama Festival gave me the perfect excuse to catch Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel adaptation. The film stays faithful to the book—makes sense considering...

WWII-era China under Japanese occupation. Hong Kong becomes a resistance hub. Six students stage a patriotic play to rally Chinese spirits. But theater alone isn't enough—they want real action...

Vienna, 1882. Dr. Breuer is one of the era's most celebrated physicians, his reputation stretching far beyond Austria's borders. His supposedly infallible diagnoses draw patients from all over Europe. But when Lou Salomé arrives...

The next installment of Stephanie Plum's wild adventures. After her first barely-glorious stint, Stephanie's decided to stick with this crazy bounty hunter gig—much to everyone else's dismay...

The Louganis brothers, Spiros and Nikos, have always done everything together. Together they arrived on the small island of Spetses one freezing January morning in 1931, together they found work at the monastery, together they married...

Fresh out of college, Chris decides to abandon everything: family, friends, career prospects. He's rejecting his parents' materialistic lifestyle to go solo into the wilderness. Destination: Alaska and raw nature...

Accused of murdering Sheriff Call—who himself killed seventeen people with complete impunity—Hillary Van Wetter rots in a Florida prison awaiting the electric chair. Fascinated by this death row inmate and convinced of his innocence...

The third Tea Club meeting focused on Italy, so I decided to check out an author I hadn't read yet—one whose latest novel got solid praise from Cathe. We're in a small Sicilian village...

"In Melancholy Cove, September is just one long sigh of relief, a kind of herbal tea you sip before bed, a nap you've been craving forever." The small California coastal town of Melancholy Cove is about to enter...