Finished this today. Amazing that it’s based on a true story (author’s family). It’s still shocking to me that the Holocaust happened.
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Lessons In Chemistry
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we just started watching
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my wife liked it a lot
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Idk if I will watch the show. I’m reading for a new to me book club at a local craft store. Reading and crafting sounds fun to me.
I finally got to re-check-out If We Were Villains and finished that. It was OKish. It’s set in a small prestigious arts school in downstate IL, where the theater program is focused solely on Shakespeare. The narrator was one of 7 theater seniors. He ends up serving 10 years in prison for murdering a fellow senior. The book is basically him recollecting the story to the head police officer on the investigation now that he’s out of jail after 10 years. The story has a lot of Shakespeare mixed in, as you’d expect, and that’s what makes the book different but what also makes the book have a contrived feel. The most obvious and trivial was that I found it annoying that the parts and chapters were called “acts” and “scenes”.
I’m running out of time on the winter reading program, so I might read another Nero Wolfe. Or maybe the latest in the Thursday Murder Club series.
Oh yeah, also the ending seems fairly obvious. A problem with a book where the main character is the narrator is that you can’t really include a major surprise involving the narrator without making the whole thing completely implausible. So the major surprise isn’t all that big of a major surprise.
Have been feeling the fantasy itch lately and just started on the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It’s known to be an incredibly long and complex series and I’m finding myself already searching online for chapter summaries to figure out who all the different parties are. Not sure yet if I’ll be up to all 10 books.
I read some of those a long time ago. Can’t recall how many, maybe 4 or 5? I seem to recall that it was complex, wandering and followed different plotlne/characters in different books.
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Finished “American Prometheus.” Much more interesting than the movie, which was also very good. Wow, Strauss (pronounced “Straws”) and Teller sure were a-holes.
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I finished Murder By The Book, a Nero Wolfe, to finish off the winter reading program.
I think Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone is next.
Finished Humble Pi and halfway through Lessons in Chemistry.
Had loads of fun at the library book sale. Splurged on some older books including a 1952 AA Milne and a 1942 West With the Night (which was actually on my reading list).
Read a cute graphic novel called Tomboy by Liz Prince.
And totally switched out the books that were languishing in my Little Free Library. I took what appeared to be rejects from my library to another one at a park—that one is nearly always empty. Saw a little boy with his mom and was able to give him a book about frogs.
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Found some books that I have not yet read rummaging through our extra bedroom which is going to get refurbed (scrape the popcorn ceiling, out with the 20+ year-old carpeting, etc.
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
good insights, some of which don’t apply too strongly to me. i was never much of a driven striver professionally, but it’s a good read and i’m getting a lot out of it.
(second half? more like final quarter for me!)
Well, I hope you go into overtime!
thanks!
i’m doing what i can to narrow the gap between my health span and my life span. at this point, i don’t want my life span to greatly exceed the number of healthy years i have remaining.
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Kelly link wrote a novel!
Will get back to you on whether it’s any good.
I think it depends on what they cut. A lot of books are basically exploded short-stories anyway.
The good thing about the movie versions is you get to see the action. Finally, a real dragon!
And the problem with the movie versions is that they get completely swamped with action.
One throwaway paragraph about a battle becomes 45 minutes of Legolas hopping on elephants and aragorn beheading skeletons.
New media idea:
A book you read for the interesting, “Makes you think” parts, then the book notes, “Start Chapter (X) of the DVD now,” for the action parts.
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