January 13th 2012
Title: Deep Sky
Author: Patrick Lee
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2012 Paperback: 384 pages
The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret.
But there is another secret even less known . . . and far more terrifying.
As the U.S. President addresses the nation from the Oval Office, a missile screams toward the White House. I
January 10th 2012
The Oklahoma City Philharmonic is an orchestra whose programming remains strongly anchored in the classical and romantic periods. So it’s always a treat when a concert features music that was written before or after those eras.
In a rare foray into baroque music, the orchestra’s recent classics concert opened with Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” a 1749 work composed to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle that ended the War of Austrian Succession.
Joel Levine drew ample majesty and pomp from the opening Overture, with dotted rhythms carefully executed and a tempo that was brisk but never rushed. As
January 7th 2012
That’s it. 1984 and 1Q84 are fundamentally the same in terms of how they work. If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which world we are talking about, no matter what kind of world we are talking about, the line separating fact from hypothesis is practically invisible to the eye. It can only be seen with the inner eye, the eye of the mind.
Haruki Murakami doesn’t lend himself to easy categorization. Thoug
January 7th 2012
Since David Beckham announced last summer that he was working on a new bodywear line, ladies everywhere have been holding their breath in anticipation. Well, the wait is over, and now you can see the soccer star in all his glory — and without most of his clothes — plastered across H&M ads and billboards.
Beckham is no stranger to the modeling world. His stint as poster boy for Armani earned the company enormous profits, and the somewhat iconic image of Becks lounging in nothing but his undies and an unbuttoned white shirt is surely embedded into the minds of many a female fan.
January 3rd 2012
Sherlock Holmes will never die — no generation of writers would let him.
Someone will always lovingly gather the classic pieces — Dr. John Watson, the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes’ smarter brother Mycroft, even the cocaine use — and reassemble them.
Generally, whether it’s a novel, a movie or a TV series, it’s either a homage to the much-loved stories, or a reimagining that takes the familiar elements into new and often darker places. Michael Dibdin’s The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, which added Jack the Ripper to the mix, might be the most extreme case of a reimagining.
The House of Silk reads for most of its length like a homage. It’s enormousl