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Mary Jane – the novel

January 26, 2022

Here I am reading another novel. Actually, it’s better described as historical fiction because this is now the third novel I’ve read that …

January 17, 2022

Since this is the third book I’ve read by Taylor Jenkins Reid, I should have expected the unexpected. Daisy Jones & The Six featured a …

January 12, 2022

Sometimes film adaptations of books don’t do the original story justice and sometimes they work well. I’m glad to report that The Tender Bar …

December 30, 2021

It seems like yesterday that I was writing a post similar to this about 2020: https://lauralieff.com/top-ten-things-i-learned-in-2020/ In …

December 21, 2021

Taylor Jenkins Reid is good. Really good. Sentence one of page one of Malibu Rising and she’s already foreshadowing about fire. Everyone in …

December 6, 2021

It’s no secret that Dave Grohl is one of my favorites of all time. But throughout the last couple of years, he has taken his talent to …

November 9, 2021

Now that the dreaded time change has officially happened and Thanksgiving is two and a half weeks away, it’s time for a fall television …

October 21, 2021

As I write this, Dave Grohl’s book The Storyteller is number one on The New York Times non-fiction best-seller list. A high school dropout …

October 12, 2021

Fall is unequivocally my favorite season. Even though I’m slammed with work because the college essay deadline is November 1 and most Vail …

September 24, 2021

When I picked up Val Kilmer’s book, I’m Your Huckleberry, I had no idea a documentary had been released about him in July. Kilmer briefly …