Hayao Miyazaki’s films for Studio Ghibli are always enchanting, and The Secret World of Arrietty is especially so. I watched this film on my birthday, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Unlike many of the fast-paced animated films currently in theaters, The Secret World of Arrietty takes its time, filling the screen with […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
2013: The Year in Reading
Here are some of my favorite books read in 2013. As usual, I devoured a lot of fantasy, with Neil Gaiman’s darkly beautiful fictionalized memoir The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the top of my list. I loved Rachel Hartman’s dragon-themed Seraphina and seriously cannot wait for the sequel. Holly Black’s much-anticipated […]
Bleak Midwinter, Happy New Year
In my last post, written in December, I used the phrase “ludicrously cold” to describe a brisk day in Colorado. That was perhaps a mistake, since I subsequently spent New Year’s Eve (and much of the week that followed) in northern Minnesota, where wind chills reached a bitter -50F for three nights in a row. […]