Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

A daily record of all of the books and movies and films and novels and short stories and even television shows (occasionally) that I read or watched collected into a monthly report.

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Sep. 2024 Reading, Viewing: Curzio Malaparte, Under The Skin

Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte's unfinished novel "The Kremlin Ball"; they do NOT include watching "Jaws 2"…

1 month ago
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August August 2024: Reading, Viewing

Kept reading The Overstory" and should have finished it. Started "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993-99), which has been a…

2 months ago
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July 2024: Reading, Watching

Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, "Blood and Wine" with Jack Nicholson, "Geology: A Very Short Introduction." Lowest lows: "The…

3 months ago
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June 2024 Reading, Viewing

Greatest Hits: Everett's "Erasure," Zweig's "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Code Inconnu." Lowest Lows: "S.W.A.T." (2003). Ouch.

4 months ago
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May 2024 Reading and Viewing

During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also "Crime Wave" and "The Insider" and even "La…

5 months ago
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April Absolutions: Reading, Watching

The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen. The lownotes: The Matrix (1999) and its progency,…

6 months ago
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Manic March 2024 Reading, Writing

David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules," Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," Ida Lupino in "Women's Prison." Is it too late to…

7 months ago
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Frigid February 2024 Reading & Watching

The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn't seen, as well as David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules"

8 months ago
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Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing

Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday

9 months ago
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Nihilistic November 2023 Reading and Writing

Greatest hits include the 1942 film "The Glass Key" and the 1993 film "Groundhog Day" and reading Schelling and reading…

11 months ago