Monday, Monday

 

I hope you are having weather like we are. Day after day of 68 degrees and sunny. I don't remember such a stretch before.

I saw two good movies FJORD and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Jane Austen never lets you down although the Ang Lee on of the nineties was better. This has such a dark palette.  

Reading AETNA, about a bomb sniffing dog trying to get home after the war. I could not get through the Russo book-UNDER THE FALL. 

Still trying to improve my balance at PT but I am beginning to think it's hopeless.

TV-MAIGRET, SMALL PROPHETS, Finished SLOW HORSES, which was terrific. 

Kevin worked his butt off, got all As and is transferring to U of M in January. Wisconsin was fine, but his friends are at Michigan schools. Now he just has to decide on a major.  Plus being an instate student will save money.

What's new with you?  

Short Story Wednesday: Dr. H.A. Moynihan, Lucia Berlin

                                        Josh and Kevin 15 years ago

I was in a bookstore on the Upper West Side in Manhattan when a friend pulled A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMAN off the shelf. Many years later I have still not finished it but the stories are great. This one concerns a middle school student who is expelled and as punishment has to help her grandfather in his dental practice all summer. His abiding interest is in making false teeth so she helps him make a set for himself by pulling all his teeth after he passes out from the pain. Or passes out from the drink. She uses teabags to stop the bleeding. They are a perfect replica of his teeth. 

George Kelley 

Jerry House 

MOnday, MOnday

 Resting up after our long drive home from Madison. What are you up to? 

Short Story Wednesday: Chuck Murphy's Last Run. Kevin Barry (THE NEW YORKER)

 

This is such a gorgeously written story, it makes me want to read everything Barry has written.

Six elderly men are on the Harleys taking the ashes of a friend to the place he wanted to be scattered. Barry gives us great detail about the day, the road, the lunch they have, their ailments, their brief encounter with surfers at the spot. When one man suggests selling his bike, no one wants to hear it. Loved it.  

 Jerry House

George Kelley 

Steve Lewis 

Monday, Monday

                                             

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Monday, Monday

 I saw both PRIMETIME and THE SOCIAL RECKONING this week. Both were hard to watch but in different ways. Robert Pattinson is certainly a fine actor as he also was in THE DRAMA and THE ODYSSEY. But predators are a hard watch. As is Zuckerberg. After watching it I rewatched THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, a far better film. 

Enjoying EAST OF EDEN, PROFESSOR T, SLOW HORSES, TED LASSO.

Finished KIN which was a good novel and am now reading UNDER THE FALLS, Richard Russo. Both for my book groups. 

Friday, we are going to Madison to see Kevin so no forgotten book for me but I will post on Monday.

What are you up to?