On TV watching THE PAPER on Peacock and ready to begin the new LYNLEY and TASK (HBO) Enjoying revisiting CHINA BEACH.
Still working on ANTIDOTE, which is wonderfully researched and written but too long. We go over the same sort of ground too many times. Have to finish it by tomorrow though. Ugh.
I did another protest on Saturday. A lot of support from passing cars. Much more than six months ago. Does it mean anything?
We are all missing Kevin. I got a text from him today saying he has watched SINNERS and did I see it. He liked it. I am impressed that he did. Hope he gets to take a film course in college. It really makes a difference to be able to watch films critically, I think. I only took one film class and it was on vampire films and taught by a Romanian professor. How fitting.
What are you up to?
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Patti, I am glad the weather is so nice there. I am envious. The weather isn't bad here, but it is warmer than in August, which was relatively cool. And in the sun, it feels even hotter. On Friday, September 12, the book sale that we look forward to all year long is starting and will last ten days. It is always hot when the book sale is running.
I am putting up my comment early because it always takes me so long to get started in the morning and my comments are usually late.
Tonight (Sunday), we watched RUSH HOUR 3, which was fun and not too long. I like that movie the least of the three movies, but I do love Jackie Chan.
This week we watched the second episode of HELL ON WHEELS, starring Anson Mount and Colm Meaney. We think we will continue watching it, and I am sure all the episodes won't be so dark and violent. I am enjoying the story of the building of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States. We have watched almost all of the first season of GOOD COP, BAD COP and it is very funny. We have watched one episode of NCIS: TONY AND ZIVA with Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo; it was better than I expected.
Glen finished reading THE PLEASURE OF READING, edited by Antonia Fraser. He ended up liking about a third of the essays and took notes on several books and authors he will follow up on. He is about halfway through the book of short stories by Cornell Woolrich, NIGHT AND FEAR. He is still enjoying the majority of the stories.
I am reading STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett, and I have read nearly half of it. Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher for a pharmaceutical firm based in Minnesota, is living in the Amazon jungle working on a valuable new drug. Dr. Marina Singh, a pharmacologist working for the same firm, goes to Brazil to find out how and why a colleague died when he visited Swenson, and to find out the status of her work. The story is bizarre and Dr. Swenson is very hard to communicate with. It has taken half of the book to get Marian Singh into the jungle. I am enjoying it, but I am not sure it is going to become any more intelligible any time soon. But I have high hopes for the last half of the book.
I am sorry, Marina Singh, not Marian.
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