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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.

In a dystopian future in which America is a burned out hellscape, a man finds his only reason to live is in keeping his son alive. So far, highly emotional without going overboard in sentimentality. Highly recommended.

A Year at the Movies: one Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy (c) 2002

Kevin Murphy goes to at least one movie every day for a year. He does not review the movies, but writes about his experience, and his thoughts about the state of movie theaters, audiences, employees, food, and films in general. Each chapter comprises of seven days of films. At the head of the chapter, he lists the theaters, where they are, and what movie was seen there. Again, does not discuss the seven films in any detail. He attempts to find a common topic.

I'm just over half way through the book. I read two more chapters last night. The first (Week 30, July 23-29) was about living on movie theater food for the week. It starts with the words. "Tell me if you think this is dumb." Spoiler, he concludes it was dumb, just as his wife, Jane, told him it would be.
The second chapter (Week 31, July 30-August 5) was about a plan to travel Route 66 and visit all the drive-in theaters. After discovering how may of those theaters are defunct, he decided to start in Los Angles and head East, going to a drive-in every night. He discussed the drive-ins he attended and the ones that have closed. Occasionally he will find a theater, or drive-in, that he finds exceptional and rare.

Kevin's vocabulary is a more extensive than the wading pool words floating around in my brain. I have to look up a few here and there. At least I try to.

“The Laugh of the Medusa”

It’s my first time reading it in French.

Does manga count?

I've been reading the Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan manga. It makes me wish I had a deer friend.

^ Sure, it counts.

I had a deer friend once. Sadly, the friendship was a bit one-sided.

Ian Rankin

A Song For The Dark Times

This Side Of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Thought I'd give one of Fitzgerald's lesser known books a read.

The Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy.

Taking place in turn-of-the-century Appalachia, a man leaves the baby, which he produced through incest with his sister, out in the woods to die. But the baby is discovered.
Already wonderfully creepy.

Child Of God, by Cormac McCarthy.

I guess I'm on a Cormac McCarthy kick these days.
A dispossessed, mentally ill man turns to his darkest inclinations as his society rejects him.
So far so good.

How is it?

Anyway as for me, I'm reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

Too be honest with you, the book is no The Great Gatsby. It got so tedious reading about these spoiled, thoughtless rich kids (with the brief exception of when a couple of them got killed in a drunk driving accident) that when I had the chance to read Cormac McCarthy, I bailed. Chances are, I'll eventually go back to it.

That's a real shame. I love the way Fitz writes, but I can't stand stories about spoiled brats unless there's a downfall or some kind of seedy underbelly.

^^^
Who knows. If I pick it up again, maybe we'll both be pleasantly surprised by what happens to that a$$hole!

strangly puzzling?
the reviews are mixed, why does the idea goes near this #ite


"It ain't to me what it is to you", or the other way round? -mr albert show; I'm not more than a sign

Has anybody read Alice in Wonderland? Is it worth reading as an adult? I'm going to the library today to return some books, so maybe I could pick it up.