Comments for For Your Leisure

Comment on On the Trail: History in a Bottle by Daniela

Daniela — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:42:27 +0000

Cool research project! And impressive use of library resources

Comment on The Vault: Casablanca by zee

zee — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:07:24 +0000

This is my all time favorite movie. I would also recommend Woody Allen’s “Play it again Sam” and “Round up the Usual Suspects : The Making of Casablanca.” by Aljean Harmetz.
Unfortunatley neither available in VPL

Comment on The Vault: Midnight In Paris by zee

zee — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:56:05 +0000

I also loved this movie. You summed it up well in your description “romance, nostalgia, intellectural dialogue, etc.”

Comment on Woodbridge Book Club – Major Pettigrew’s last stand by Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:01:12 +0000

That’s fantastic that the group enjoyed the book! I really liked it too. Major Pettigrew is such a sympathetic character, and goes through such intellectual and emotional changes in the course of the story. And, I thought the supporting cast were a lot of fun as well.

Comment on One for the money by Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:47:55 +0000

Just wanted to add that Rebecca linked to “Three Plums in One”, a compendium of the first three books in the series. If you want to check out just the paperback, we recently received several movie tie-in versions and they can be found here: http://catalogue.vaughanpl.info:8080/lib/item?id=chamo:625652&theme=vaughan

Comment on IDENTICAL STRANGERS by Daniela

Daniela — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:13:00 +0000

I’m about a 100 pages into this book! Really interesting so far! Hope to have a review posted soon! Thanks for the recommendation.

Comment on One for the money by Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:33:38 +0000

I have to say, I got a little less excited about the movie when I heard it was going to be Katherine Heigl playing Stephanie Plum. She’s just not how I’d picture Stephanie. But, Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur, and Sherri Shepherd as Lula are sure to be pretty funny.

I really enjoy listening to the audiobooks of these in the car. They are nice and lighthearted for while you’re driving, and the woman who reads the stories does really funny voices for the characters.

Comment on Down-to-Read with Daniela: He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo by Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:20:29 +0000

I am also embarrassed to admit that I voluntarily read this, but I did so because I had a friend who had been severely mistreated by a boyfriend (dumped, undumped, dumped again, etc) who just was not able to admit the terrible guy needed to be dropped, and fast.

When you’re scanning this book looking for patterns of ill behaviour for a friend’s ex — that is, when it’s not personal to you — it’s a lot easier to enjoy the comedy and see the wisdom behind the words!

Comment on Down-to-Read with Daniela: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton by Daniela

Daniela — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:47:38 +0000

Oooo creeepy! Today Black Plague, tomorrow dinosaurs! lol

Comment on Down-to-Read with Daniela: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton by Ruthanne

Ruthanne — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:33:16 +0000

Have you heard that scientists have isolated and mapped the genome of the Black Plague? Sounds outrageous, but it is true – I heard it on the CBC a week or so ago. Check out the story here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/12/black-death-genome.html