Reading and Roaming
I have returned home from my Asian Adventure and along with re-adjusting to east coast time, I’m back doing more reading. Here are my latest books. WSJ Book Club Sometime ago, I read that the Wall Street Journal was starting an online book club. I was intrigued, but I was still working and didn’t think …
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The Oscars While not surprised, I was disappointed that Boyhood did not win best picture, but very pleased that Patricia Arquette got an award for her marvelous role in this film. As one article I read pointed out, the award winners are more and more divorced from what the American public goes to see. Compared …
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This Week’s Movie Boyhood I loved Boyhood. We watched it almost in one sitting with only a short break and it was so real. It’s fiction, a scripted story, but because of its pace, it seems like a documentary. Mason, the boy, is amazing, but there is something satisfying about watching the parent actors, Patricia …
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This week I have two books to recommend. One is serious and to be savored, the other fun and a quick read. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. This is a magnificent book, and that’s an adjective I seldom, if ever, use to describe a novel. Two parallel stories, two lives, one of …
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