My book club is diving into the NYT bestseller and winner of the Nobel prize in economics book “Nudge” by University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunnstein. The book draws on research in psychology and behavior economics to look at the underlying engineering of choice arcitecture. Am …
Nearly finished with best-selling author Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” It’s a memoir in which the author, a college professor who often teaches on the Greek classics, finds that his father enrolled in one of his courses. Specifically the course on Homer’s “The Odyssey.” An epic adventure unfolds in more ways than one, more than two …
Written by Emmy-winning editor Jordan Goldman, A.C.E. (editor on such shows as The Shield & Homeland) who takes you inside the cutting room and pulls back the curtain on how and why directors, showrunners, and editors decide whether your performance makes it on screen. A good friend of mine in Hollywood mentioned she had been …
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Actor Paul Cram at one of the best places in the world
What if the moon were just a jump away? In this short, a beautiful answer to that question from Italo Calvino, read live by Liev Schreiber. It’s an achingly beautiful tale of love, with mesmerizing imagery. Special thanks to my friend Jim D. for sharing this with me first.
Happy National Book Lovers Day (on August 9th) from actor Paul Cram! 10 Famous Books & Movie Memorabilia Items: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling New York Times best seller Cinder by Marissa Meyer Ruby Slipper (Wizard of Oz) Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Face Stealer by Robert Scott-Norton …
The Face Stealer by Robert Scott-NortonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I am biased with this book, because I narrated the audiobook version. That being said, a big reason I had an interest in the book was that it kept being compared to having similarities to that show Torchwood that aired on BBC1. I liked …
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Just in, new #SciFi #book on my nightstand “Echo” by Canadian author @Jamiescribbles aka Jamie Mason
Inbetween shooting on the movie “Anniversary” in Maine, I stopped into Longfellow books and picked up an Artemis Fowl novel. A fun thing happened upon walking out of the bookshop- next door, just across the hall, is a bakery named “Foley’s Cakes.” If you read the series, then you know what a fun coincidence this …
Nearly all of these books are young adult fantasy fiction, with a couple of unique exceptions. Such as the memoir by Minnesotan Richard Curney, the non-fantasy children’s story “A Long Way From Chicago,” and the adult paranormal novel Skullduggery Pleasant. There are two books by the same author, Johnathan Stroud. He must be one busy …
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