Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro The Interpreter Of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri The Professor And The Madman - Simon Winchester I looked up the books on your list and these three will be going on my list of books to read (along with Skinny Dip). The Professor And The Madman was recomme...

There are several books on the Battle of Jutland that I've thought about. 'Castles of Steel' is one of them, and it is the longest - so I've been a little hesitant. It certainly sounds great. I will just have to dive in. The closest thing I've read in relation to Imperialism and Africa was 'Barrow'...

I have a friend who has a copy of 'Paris, 1919' and I am planning on moving on to that once I finish reading my way through The Great War. Rather than picking one book which covers the whole war I decided to read separate ones on the individual battles. I have been very happy with the ones I have c...

I ditto what abc said (except I do read more fiction than nonfiction, though if nonfiction included autobiographies, than I'd be stuck). I admit that I lump other genres into non-fiction, so I should clarify the term and include travel writing (Bill Bryson, Paul Theroux) and biography/autobiography...

The Devil In The White City? Absolutely! I Agree. One of the best books I read in 2003. I tend to read only non-fiction these past few years and this is a good example of why. There are so many others that I could list along with this one. Also check out an earlier book of his called, Isaac's Storm...

While channel-surfing the other day I ended up watching a bit of Father Of The Bride. I can never pull myself away from that movie. Spencer Tracy is one of my favorite actors and his performance in 'Father' is one of his best. I'm so glad that he received a nomination for Best Actor - for a comedic...

Top Ten List – 2004 Each year I make a list of the ten films that I enjoyed the most. Not the ten best movies – although the two might be identical. I also do not rate by a star system (sorry)– but most of these ten are four star films. I have not seen Closer. Hotel Rwanda and Million Dollar Baby h...