Category Archives: Entertainment

Why I dread Hanukah

Part of the Hanukah ritual includes singing a Hebrew song, Maoz Tsur.

Bookworm reviews a movie

We went to see the new Star Wars movie in the theater!
Two thumbs down. It was awful.

A happy camper

Yesterday afternoon I finally figured out how to do a thing with CSS that I’ve been working on for weeks. Yesss! And then, yesterday evening, Steve and I actually got to go out on a date.

No, but I read the book

Green-Eyed Lady’s comment that she’d rather read the book than see the movie (which is how I mostly feel, too) prompts me to ask:
What are some of your favorite or least favorite movie adaptations of books?

Vanity Fair, to my great surprise

A long time ago I used to belong to the Quality Paperback Book Club. I would not even open the envelope when it came, so that when I got the book of the month in the mail it would be a surprise.

In which the Bookworm goes to a show and gets surprised

Now wouldn’t that be a cute blog gimmick? To title every post in the manner of a 17th-century novel, “In which . . .”?
Anyway, I did go to a show last night.

Guilty Pleasures

Ok, we don’t have tv; we just use it as a video monitor. But we’re not totally out of it.