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Book: Made in America – Bill Bryson (1996)

For those of you who have not read books by Bill Bryson before, be prepared for a blast. These books are non-fiction, but are incredibly funny. There has been many a time when I have had to go back and read a section that I just read since it made me laugh (and I wanted [...]

Book: The Devil’s Alternative (1979)

In this time and age, the events described in this thriller by Frederick Forsyth seem as from another age. And in fact, that was another age. In 1979, when this novel was published, the Soviet Union was the worldwide great power representing communism, with the Eastern half of Europe in its clutches. In addition to [...]

Movie: Roman Holiday (1953)

Roman Holiday was a movie that brought a major star to American attention. Audrey Hepburn was an almost unknown to the American public at that time; she had appeared on American television in 1952 – a CBS Television Workshop production of Rainy Day in Paradise Junction. However, she was still an unknown, and then here [...]

Book: Shakespeare – The world as a stage

I am not a great reader of biographies (or that too from Jacobean or Elizabethan literature) but I just finished a new book by Bill Bryson (and you say – but Bill Bryson is not about bioraphies). Yes, you are true – but this book is about a prominent figure from that era. The book [...]