So, one of the "benefits" of being unemployed is that I have a lot of time to catch up on TV shows via Hulu. I'll probably write about a few of them in the next few days/weeks but today, I'm talking about "Glee". It seems Fox has two kinds of sitcoms. Ones that are excellent if ...

My friend Peter posted a list of the movies he considered in contention for the best movies of the first decade of the 21st century, which inspired me to look at what I liked best this decade. The way I did this was to look at the movies that had dates between 2000 and 2009 that ...

TBWITWW and I each have separate Netflix queues. Because our tastes are fairly different, this allows us to have different recommendations. Also, because I watch movies as background, I have a much more lowest-common-denominator selection. Action movies and the like. However TBWITWW uses TV that way, so when she watches a movie, she tends to choose ...

As part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewer's program, I was recently sent a copy of Careers in Crime: An Applicant's Guide by Michael Weinberg. This book is a send up of the typical job hunting books that try to cover the "best jobs" in a given field. It's filled with statistics, example of practioners of different ...

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I finished Devil in the White City by Erik Larson yesterday. I think it read like two fairly interesting stories mingled together with little to no actual connection between the two. The writing was quite good though. It read fast and kept me interested. This book, after having read Empires of Light and Citizen has made ...

I just finished Citizen : Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight. This book focuses on the earlier part of her life, including her childhood, education and founding of Hull House. While the history of Jane Addams was very interesting, what I found most facinating in this book was the picture of ...