Henry Adams – Democracy: An American Novel
A society woman investigates the mechanics of power in 1880s Washington D.C.
Tagged: mood: casual
Katinkas Kalas
It’s Katinkas birthday, the food is prepared and the table set. Her closets friend come to celebrate her, when her brother Joel and his girlfriend Linda arrive unannounced, the party turns in to a nightmare for everybody involved.
Haruki Murakami – After Dark
In After Dark, Murakami masterfully concocts a tale of everyday minutiae with a healthy splash of fantastical suspense, topped off with a twist of hard-boiled crime, and garnished with some supernatural angst – shaken, not stirred.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya – There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Once you finish Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, you’ll realize why the subtitle is “Scary fairy tales,” and not “From Russia with love.”
Restless (2011)
Restless is that kind of beautiful movie that always will be in the back of your head. That kind of feel-good movie that you will want to watch when you are feeling a little sad because it will make you cry yet make you feel alright.
Jake Silverstein – Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction
A writer’s quest through desert towns leads him to stories but not always success.
Batman: Year One
The Dark Knight Begins: an adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic story of where it all began.
Eric Enno Tamm – The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds
Author Eric Enno Tamm follows the footsteps of a 1900s spy across Central Asia and China.
