Reading and Roaming
LIVE THEATER—FARCE VS. FUN This week we attended the last two performances of our Asolo subscription series. Noises Off at the Wednesday matinee and The Cake the next evening. I am not a particular fan of farce, but went to Noises Off with an open mind. I thought it started out slowly, but then picked up and became funnier. As usual, …
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WHAT I’M READING NOW I have two books going currently. One is a book of essays by Janet Malcolm, a staff writer for The New Yorker, called Nobody’s Looking at You. The other is Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, Transcription. Several years ago I read her Life After Life which was excellent. Our island book group will be discussing Atkinson’s new novel shortly, and I’m really …
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MORE BESTS As I indicated last week, the newspaper world is full of bests. Even our local paper, Herald Tribune, offered up a selection of the best books of the year. And the New York Times seems to have gone overboard with each of its distinctive sections having its own, “The Best of 2018” edition. On Sunday, “Arts & Leisure” had …
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RECENT FILMS Free Solo This is a breathtaking and stunning National Geographic documentary about free soloing on Yosemite’s El Capitan. That is, climbing its 3,000 foot rock wall without any ropes. The first person to ever do that was Alex Hannold in June 2017, and this is the story and the backstory of that …
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