Quichotte Salman Rushdie (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shakespeare-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’76’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte, was published in the United States on September 3, following an August 29 release in the United Kingdom and in India. His first novel, Midnight’s Children, won the coveted… Continue reading Quichotte
Author: Jay Ruud
Pho Huyen
Review No. 175: Pho Huyen 1600 Dave Ward Drive (501) 504-2449 79.1 Percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: If you’re not familiar with pho, it’s a kind of Vietnamese soup with rice noodles, herbs, and meat, usually beef. If you haven’t been down Dave Ward Drive lately, let me just clue… Continue reading Pho Huyen
KFC
Review No. 174: KFC 2670 North Donaghey Avenue (501) 336-8440 79.0 Percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said:We had a big-ol’ day ahead of us on Sunday, so we decided to hit the local KFC’s lunch buffet for efficiency and choice. He Said: Colonel Sanders opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant… Continue reading KFC
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Brittany Runs a Marathon Paul Downs Colaizzo (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Running a marathon is one of the most difficult achievements in the field of sports. Not because it takes remarkable athleticism, like hitting a 100 mph fastball, or throwing a touchdown pass against an NFL… Continue reading Brittany Runs a Marathon
JinWei Chinese Express
Review No. 172: JinWei Chinese Express 2235 Dave Ward Drive, Suite No. 106 (501) 504-2014 78.4 Percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: He Said wasn’t feeling well and we were in a Sunday mood, so take-out seemed like a good idea, and JinWei had been on my radar for awhile. We had… Continue reading JinWei Chinese Express
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Review No. 171: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts 1105 Dave Ward Drive (501) 499-9849 76.7 Percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: Last week “Cream-Filled Doughnut Day” appeared on the calendar, and She Said and I decided it would be a very auspicious day on which to actually go to a doughnut shop and… Continue reading Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
East of Eden
East of Eden John Steinbeck (1952) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shakespeare-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’76’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Having read and enjoyed John Steinbeck’s classics Of Mice and Men and the The Grapes of Wrath during my senior year of high school back in 1968, and spurred on by renewed interest in… Continue reading East of Eden
Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Adho Mukha Svanasana”
Skinny J’s
Review No. 170: Skinny J’s 2235 Dave Ward Drive, suite #201 (501) 358-6586 76.2 Percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: In the former location of the now defunct Roux’s Cajun Creole restaurant, a new Skinny J’s franchise has now opened on Dave Ward Drive. Skinny J’s, which bills itself as “not… Continue reading Skinny J’s