A quick one as I am getting home late from seeing a play RADICAL EMPATHY. As you can imagine it was not a comedy. Also saw the movie FOLK TALES about a school in Norway that tries to get teens to get off their phones and out of their heads and learn some skills, like dog-sledding.
Reading ABSOLUTION by Alice McDermott. Also THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE (Van Der Kolk)
Watching THE GILDED AGE (HBO), CODE OF SILENCE (Britbox) and various other things.
A very nice three days here. Hope you are enjoying your weather too.
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I have good news, we have a new cat. His name is London, he is two years old, and he weighs ten pounds. We are used to small female cats. We got him on Thursday afternoon, and he seems to have adjusted very well to life in a new home in the last three days. He loves to be petted and will butt your hand to remind you to pet his head. He purrs a lot and loudly. He doesn't meow (at least not since he has been with us), but he chirps and trills a lot. The only bad habit he has (so far) is he wants to eat our food.
We have been watching ELEMENTARY, BURN NOTICE, and DEATH IN PARADISE. All of those are shows we are rewatching. A new show is THE LIBRARIANS: NEXT CHAPTER, which I don't like as well as previous LIBRARIANS shows but they are still fun.
Glen finished the short story book, THE ROOM OPPOSITE AND OTHER TALES by F.M. Mayor. He liked a lot of the stories. He is still reading BORN TO BE POSTHUMOUS by Mark Dery, the Edward Gorey biography, and is about a quarter of the way into it. At this point, he is finding it slow. He will probably find another book to read along with that one, maybe a mystery.
After I finished reading NINEFOX GAMBIT by Yoon Ha Lee (science fiction), I moved on to PERPLEXING PLOTS: POPULAR STORYTELLING AND THE POETICS OF MURDER by David Bordwell. I am enjoying it although the writing is very dense. There are later chapters on Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout, Patricia Highsmith and Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake and his Richard Stark books, which I am looking forward to.
Congratulations on the new cat, Tracy! What's angle/argument of the Bordwell book?
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