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.
Triumphs: "The Red Shoes" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock"! Flaubert's "Sentimental Education"!
All of the books and films don't amount to much when political terror begins.
Greatest Hits: "Carefree", "Geology Bites" on sedimentary bias, "The Cheese and the Worms" (very sexy stuff)
Greatest hits of November 2024: "Brewster's Millions", "Silas Marner", "Earth Time." Worst moments: "Over the Top"? "Short Circuit"?
October is a good enough reason to watch scary movies. Like the vice presidential debate ... or the movie "Terrifier,"…
Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte's unfinished novel "The Kremlin Ball"; they do NOT include watching "Jaws 2"…
Kept reading The Overstory" and should have finished it. Started "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993-99), which has been a…
Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, "Blood and Wine" with Jack Nicholson, "Geology: A Very Short Introduction." Lowest lows: "The…
Greatest Hits: Everett's "Erasure," Zweig's "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Code Inconnu." Lowest Lows: "S.W.A.T." (2003). Ouch.
During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also "Crime Wave" and "The Insider" and even "La…