November 1
I had another meeting related to the potter's guild show next weekend. I'm also committed to making cookies for it, along with 30 mugs for the musicians. It occurs to me that the sales events I like best (this one and the Fall Folk Festival) I end up giving enough in monetary and other support that they aren't really very profitable. Oh well. They're fun anyway.Books read and other media of note |
Djibouti by Elmore Leonard I
wish at my current age I could keep track of the plots of master
storyteller Leonard, who must be getting on in years. He managed
to bottle the zeitgeist of our current era--Gulf pirates and
terrorism--and make a thriller out of it. A good share of the
middle told the action from a retrospective of material to make a film
documentary--an odd perspective, but it worked. Bertie Wooster Sees it Through by PG Wodehouse The titles tell nothing, and make it hard to distinguish it from the other Bertie and Jeeves tales, but then PG Wodehouse himself acknowledged he had only one plot, and like The Return of Jeeves, that plot included breaking and entering for the best purposes of love and honor... Savage Run by C.J. Box Box can take an environmental theme and work it both ways, from the point of view of economically affected locals, and the larger environmental issues. A good series set in the modern west, inspite a name that sounds more like a western bodice ripper... The Return of Jeeves by PG Wodehouse. This is a rare volume in the Bertie and Jeeves series, in which Bertie makes little appearance, but Jeeves accepts the employment by a young man, esulting with the usual breaking and entering for the best purposes of love and honor. Robin Hood (Film 2010) An interesting version, for someone used to the Howard Pyle/Disney archery contest stuff. I liked it better than the Prince of Thieves version. I really should see the Flynn/DeHavilland one sometime. There was lots of arrow piercing sword slashing gore, but it was countered by the complex intrigue of the plot. I was surprised to hear them reprise Women of Ireland, which was used for Barry Lyndon, which I never saw, but liked the Chieftains album made from it. |
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