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By Jim Menick

Books & Entertainment Blog

  • Music Hath Charms

    Music sets the mood. If I want to have a nice relaxing dinner at home, usually there will be nice relaxing music on the stereo. I like folks…

  • Too Many Birthdays!!!

    Today is the birthday of Lewis Carroll (AKA Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Every website in the universe will be writing about that, except for those who will be writing…

  • Debbie Reynolds

    You probably know a lot of things about Debbie Reynolds, but you may not know that she owned one of the greatest collections of Hollywood memorabilia ever assembled,…

  • The Old Republic

    If you’re not a gamer, you probably don’t give the subject much thought. You know there’s video games out there, but you don’t play them much, except maybe…

  • Fallingwater

    Among the places you might never get a chance to visit is Fallingwater, the famous house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Thanks to seeing this linked…

  • Illustrating the Arabian Nights

    One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of tales told by Scheherazade to the king. He will execute her when a tale ends, but the way she…

  • Audible.com

    As an audiobook fan, I rely on Audible for my daily commuting fix. They’re not paying me to say this, by the way. I just happen…

  • The Most Influential Silent Films

    A list of the most influential silents is not the same as a list of the best silents. In the days when I used to hang out at…

  • Gregory Maguire in Oz

    L. Frank Baum’s Oz is probably the Great American Fairytale. Where other countries have their Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersons, we have Oz. Baum wrote numerous installments…

  • Bienvenue, Foolish Mortals

    You’ve probably never been to Disneyland Paris. You may even think it’s still called Euro Disney (the name was changed in 1994). The park got off to a…