Patrick Grode
Cauldron makes for easy, light reading
As Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets draws crowds of every age to the movie theaters and convinces fans to reread J.K. Rowling’s novels, I decided to reopen another children’s fantasy. Lloyd Alexander’s The Black Cauldron is second in the Chronicles of Prydain, and it was one of my favorite books as a child.
“Rebecca” entertains despite flaws
Misty moors, isolated mansions, creepy servants, dark nights, stormy seas, and an innocent young woman? Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca has all the elements of a classic horror movie. It also exhibits the innovative camera angles and plot twists expected of the great director.
Revisiting the classics
This week is the ALA’s Banned Books Week, so this week I chose reread one of my favorites?a classic almost everyone has heard of. Most of us first read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in high school. At the time, however, few of us knew that it was the fifth most challenged book in America.
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