Started reading W.G. Sebald, for the first time. Who turned me to "The Hunter Gracchus," by Dr. K. Also, Edgar Lee Master’s "Spoon River Anthology" … okay, perhaps not odious
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- 2022-11-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Saturnine September 2022: Reading, Viewing
Greatest hits of September: "Lord of the Rings," "We Are the Best!" (2013), "The Hunt" (1966)—and I finished James Joyce’s "Ulysses"!
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- 2022-10-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
August-alia 2022: Reading, Watching
Birthday months are great for watching Antonioni trilogies, Premingers’ “In Harm’s Way,” reading “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Shawl.”
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- 2022-09-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Strikingly Read, Viewed: July 2022
Mostly mountainbiked during July, enjoyed the refreshing waters of Lake Willoughby Vermont, but also read Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” José Saramago’s “The Double,” and Richard Linklater’s “Before Trilogy”
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- 2022-08-07
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Heatedly Read, Watched: Boring June 2022
Heatedly read and viewed during June 2022, including José Rizal’s "Noli Me Tangere," Don Siegel’s "The Lineup" (1958), and "Wanda" (1975)
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- 2022-07-02
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Powerful May Reading, Viewing: 2022 edition
May reading and viewing of Ashley Vaught in 2022. Best of: "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, "Dubliners", and "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy" by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
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- 2022-06-02
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Narcoleptically Read & Watched: April 2022
How do you read and watch narcoleptically? Binging series and reading sparingly, here and there.
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- 2022-05-04
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March 2022: Read & Viewed, with feeling
All of what was read and watched during the month of March 2022, especially James Joyce’s "Ulysses" and the 1986 Soviet film "Come and See"
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- 2022-04-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Blithely Read Ulysses, Watched et al.: Feb 2022
In February 2022 I started reading “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Odyssey”, watched “The Killing” (1956) and other things like the Russian film “T-34”
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- 2022-03-05
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Lasciviously Read & Watched: January 2022
Each of books and films lasciviously read and watched (respectively) during the first month of the 2022nd year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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- 2022-02-06
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Happily Read and Watched: December 2021
Didn’t do much mountain biking, but I read and watched “Alien Resurrection,” Cynthia Ozick’s “Trust,” Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1”, Italian Neo-Realism, etc.
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- 2022-01-05
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What was read and viewed during the sad, bad month of November 2021
Was it a sad, bad month, November? I read Athan Theoharis' "Abuse of Power", watched "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" (2019) and "The Lusty Men" (1952)
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- 2021-12-04
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read, Viewed: October 2021
When you begin the month with a film like "Incendies," it’s downhill for the remaining 30 days. Luckily I started reading "Trust."
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- 2021-11-02
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Read, Viewed: September 2021
During September I finished reading "Shadow of the Torturer" a short story by Adalbert Stifter, luminary of 19th century German literature, and watched "Forbidden Games."
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- 2021-10-10
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Read, Viewed: August 2021
Moments of grace: finishing Lois Lowry’s "Number the Stars," Edith Wharton’s "Ethan Frome", and viewing again the 2000 film "Sexy Beast."
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- 2021-09-04
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report