Fiction - paperback; Quercus; 181 pages; 2009. (Translated from the German by Anthea Bell) There were four things going for Andrea Maria Schenkel's The Murder Farm even before I started reading it: it's a crime novel; the author's won several awards for it; it's foreign; and it's from Quercus,...

So some guy proposed to his girlfriend at LEGOLAND in Las Vegas, apparently because every other place in Vegas was too crowded. With hookers. Crowded with hookers. *booking flight* Cobb proposed to Williams with the help of a "Lacey Will You Marry Me?" sign hand-crafted by one of the park's master m...

Fiction – paperback; Sceptre; 378 pages; 2009. Chris Cleave's The Other Hand was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. It is one of those books I kept picking up in bookstores and then putting down. I was intrigued but also skeptical. The blurb, surely, was a marketing ploy? This is what...

Fiction – paperback; Virago Modern Classics; 224 pages; 2006. Before I discovered the wonderful world of book blogs I had never heard of the English writer Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975). I simply associated the name with the Hollywood actress.  I made a mental note to read something from her ...

Although the header of my blog doesn't reflect it yet, I have renamed my blog "New Every Morning." It has a rather hopeful ring to it, don't you think? I got tired of the whole "In His Footsteps" name, mostly because it was never particularly meaningful to me in the first place. I just decided to st...

A wide range of different applications and protocols exist for communicating via voice and instant messaging, with some being far more popular than others. OS X comes bundled with iChat, a client offering a number of great features. While not perfect for everyone, it does a good job of providing a r...

Written by Dawn Foster. I started working from home occasionally when I worked at Intel. It started on an ad hoc basis when I was waiting for a delivery at home or for conference calls in the very early morning or late at night to talk to people in other timezones. When I started working from home o...

"Half-Smart Herman" is Arthur Herman, author of "Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age" and the person who penned this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Camp David and the foilbles of Jimmy Carter from which I've selected this on which to comment: Yet f...

I’ve tried for the past five minutes to make a pun conflating the words “Cannes” and “Prognostication.” Despite it seeming like they’d be a good match, it’s deceptively difficult. “Cannes-nostication” is the best I could come up with, and that...

Backing up your computer is an essential task that many of us neglect until something goes horribly wrong. With OS X Leopard, Apple has made it much easier to ensure that your data is always backed up and protected through a feature called Time Machine. Time Machine is an application that automatica...