The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.
Continue reading...Ulysses
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"!
Continue reading...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.”
Continue reading...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”
Continue reading...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)
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...Reading Ulysses’ “Oxen of the Sun” (to oneself, aloud, and just in general)
On the experience, specifically pain, of reading as instanced with reference to the modernist masterpiece "Ulysses" by Irish writer James Joyce.
Continue reading...Narcoleptically Read & Watched: April 2022
How do you read and watch narcoleptically? Binging series and reading sparingly, here and there.
Continue reading...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"
Continue reading...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”
Continue reading...Fragrant Excerpt from Joyce’s “Ulysses”: 5, Lotus Eaters
One of several forthcoming asides on the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Lead us not into temptation.
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