June 2008

I highly recommend The Lyric Cinema Cafe

I have recently added this  establishment to my Blog Roll. It’s called the Lyric Cinema Cafe and it is located at 300 E. Mountain Ave. in Fort Collins, Colorado. I am currently writing an article about this cinema for the Berthoud Weekly Surveyor and will post it here when it runs. This cinema shows great artistic movies you will not be able to find anywhere else in Northern Colorado.  The

Book Review: Drop City

By T.C. Boyle This book was a gift from my husband.  He knew nothing about the book, but  he knows  I enjoyed books about Alaska and books about weird  cultish groups  so he thought I might enjoy Drop City.   He was right, yet  the book  does not hold a place on my list of  favorites. I had not read any books by author T.C. Boyle and at first his

Book Review: The Dogs of Babel

by Carolyn Parkhurst Paul comes home to find his wife, Lexy, is dead. She has fallen from a 25-foot apple tree in their backyard; the only witness is their dog, Lorelei. The police rule the death an accident, but why Lexy had climbed the tree is a mystery. As far as Paul knows she had never climbed the tree before, or any other tree. Paul becomes obsessed with finding out