The Christmas Tree by Julie Salamonwrote first review Jan 2015: I have read many books about how the tree is selected and how it gets from point A to point B.Very fascinating details along the way. Based on the NJ nuns that donated a tree to the NY Rockefeller center for the holidays.As told from th...
+ great cover design+ good readability+ built-in human interest+ I have a feeling this book will stick with me and I'll think of it whenever I think of hospitals or Brooklyn+ I finally knocked another book off of my to-read list from 2008.- author a little to into Rambam and will digress on him when...
I was wholly unfamiliar with Wendy Wasserstein but I love reading about writers, and her life featured so many elements I enjoy reading about -- women's colleges, New York City, the arts scene, and complicated families. This is an authorized biography and I was apprehensive at first that would mean...
The author spent a year at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York and then wrote this book about how a big city hospital is run.
Salamon tells the tale of the making of Bonfire of the Vanities into a film. It provides an incredibly detailed view of the many aspect of moviemaking, any of which can turn a good product into a bad one. She notes the thought process behind many of the decisions that were made for the film, many of...
When movie-making goes horribly wrong....if you've seen the film Bonfire of the Vanities, then you understand just what a fiasco it was. At the time it was one of my favorite novels, and I hated that movie so much.
When movie-making goes horribly wrong....if you've seen the film Bonfire of the Vanities, then you understand just what a fiasco it was. At the time it was one of my favorite novels, and I hated that movie so much.
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