Gabriel has his spring break next week. Julia has a job interview on Friday, and the whole family is headed up to Milledgeville on Saturday. Monday, Julia has another interview...
Bye, bye, Emily Owens M.D. Julia and I really liked this show. I thought Mamie Gummer was really appealing - as was the rest of the cast. I suppose it was like a CW-Grey's Anatomy. The various love-triangle subplots were catching, and I thought the writers came up with some interesting medical dilemmas each week.
Too bad the ratings weren't better. Maybe Mamie will get another show soon!
Looking ahead at the year in book releases, here is what on the horizon between here and the end of the year:
- Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed (May)
- Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings (April) (follows the lives of six girls who attended a summer arts camp)
- Elizabeth Haynes' Dark Tide (said to be for fans of Gone Girl)
- Jonathan Dee's A Thousand Pardons (another look at post 9/11 privileged NYC)
- Harlan Coben's Six Years ( a stand-alone thriller)
- Stephen King's Dr. Sleep (a sequel to The Shining)
- Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland (set in the 60s and 70s in Calcutta)
- Elizabeth Strout's The Burgess Boys (follow-up to her Pulitzer-winning Oliver Kitteridge)
- Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter (the late author's last novel about small-time Ireland)
- Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs (her first novel since The Emperor's Children, it's a tale about a teacher with dreams of becoming an artist)
- Lionel Shriver's Big Brother (set in Iowa, it's about siblings and obesity)
- Michael Pollan's Cooked
- Edward Rutherford's Paris (another historical novel, this time about the City of Light)
These are but a sampling...
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A selection for my list of the 500 Greatest Performances of All Time:
as Suzanne Stone Maretto in To Die For (1995)
Kidman's Golden Globe-winning performance was the first indication that she was going to be a great actress. As a cheery, ambitious weathergirl who wants to be famous above anything else, Kidman is blackly funny and lethal, blissfully false and sexy. Nothing stands in this woman's way: not her likably dumb husband (Matt Dillon), not her mumbly, snarly teenage lover (Joaquin Phoenix), not her suspicious sister (Illeana Douglas, spot-on).
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