All 14 suites are appointed with private balconies, colonial-style d?r and plenty of mosquito netting.
Though "Bling Ring" contains plenty of party scenes, the actresses said that didn't necessarily come easily.
Two of the best books I've read so far this year were Patrik Ouredník's unique prose-poem Europeana, and Frances Spufford's bravura Red Plenty, which asks of itself: is this a novel or is it history?
Francis Spufford's books cover a wide variety of subjects, from polar exploration to his childhood reading to a blend of fiction and nonfiction about Soviet Russia in "Red Plenty," which Dwight Garner named one of his 10 favorite books of 2012.
You won't come out of "Red Plenty" quite the way you came in, either.
The remainder of "Red Plenty" is mostly a long unraveling: there is little cream, very few dumplings.
At the end of the first chapter of Francis Spufford's "Red Plenty," however, I printed a nerdy but heartfelt word: "Bravo".
In Red Plenty, his magnificent novel-cum-history of the Soviet Union, Francis Spufford charts how the communist dream of building a better, fairer society fell apart.
Spufford is the author of five previous books, all nonfiction, on subjects as varied as polar exploration (the splendidly titled "I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination"), his boyhood reading ("The Child That Books Built"), and the mid-twentieth-century optimism of the U.S.S.R. ("Red Plenty").
"Red Plenty," as its title suggests, is the story of the Bolshevik promise of abundance.
