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My 2023 Reading Challenge is still substantially behind schedule, but I have not thrown in the towel just yet.  As a quick way to tick anot...

I owe thanks to K for picking out Kindred as our postal book club book. I had been meaning to read it for quite some time, and I sure am gl...

I'm pretty substantially behind on my 2023 Reading Challenge, but I have to take a break from it to read my next Postal Book Club book. ...

I have to give Spencer credit for being better than I expected.  It was intensely psychological and Kristen Stewart performed extremely we...

When I travel, I like to read a book about or set in or somehow related to the place where I am going.  S and I recently spent a week in Bal...

It was a long time coming, but I finally finished reading my May 2023 Reading Challenge book, Brave New World . In case you also managed to ...

How are we in October already?  Time to get out the Halloween decorations, I suppose. 

Still Life is set in London, so I was of course predisposed to like it.  Eddie Marsan plays a low-level civil servant whose job is to trac...

All the sudden, it's September.  The heat wave has broken.  It's not yet cool in the mornings, but it's no longer stifling; the ...

Older ( Ben Platt ) I don't remember where I heard this song, but I wrote down the singer and the title and set them aside.  As is ofte...