by Patrick Coffin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — Marathon Man This is the first time I have watched this 1970’s thriller. Dustin Hoffmann plays Thomas Levy, is a history Ph.D. student in history who loves running, especially along the Hudson River in New York. His father committed suicide about...
by Patrick Coffin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — Niagara From the movies I have watched Marilyn Monroe in, this was a rare drama/thriller role for her. It is definitely not one of her strongest acting roles. Nor is this one of the best movies of the 1950’s, although I liked it. I thought the...
by Patrick Coffin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — The Secret Garden Set at the start of the twentieth century, this delightful novel of a little ten-year-old girl living in British India, Mary Lennox was about a self-absorbed, demanding spoilt little brat or as the book says by the time Mary was...
by Patrick Coffin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — The Hobbit For the first time in many years, I returned to J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth and have reread The Hobbit, a book that really is a prelude to his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how I can give any more praise to one of the...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — He Leadeth Me “What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?” Father Walter J. Ciszeck This is the story of a Catholic priest who along with a...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — The Pickwick Papers I am reading Charles Dickens novels for the first time. I had, read A Christmas Carol but to be fair, that is really a short story, be it one of the best classic short stories of all time. The Pickwick Papers was originally...
