Thursday, December 16, 2010

We shall discuss your affairs over a Christmas box of Franzia, Bob!

What to say about the second most well known Christmas story? Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a story whose particulars are well known to us all, but few had read the original. What did we discover?

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Girls with Dragon Tattoos Love Boxed Wine

Our perception of Best Sellers is apparently somewhat jaundiced. We've come to expect Da Vinci Codes,  or perhaps a few hundred pages of Tom Clancy putting info on the latest nightvision scopes and his Cold War Hangover Fever Dreams into a shaker, or various tales of how rich women finding themselves, bearing the sticker of Oprah's Book Club. We are not Oprah's Book Club, we are the Guild of Franzia--our souls are as hard and black as our livers.So it's a bit of a shock that best-selling sensation The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, praised by mothers and BYU folks alike, sits comfortably on our shelf with the rest of the urban despair and death camps.

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