Carrie (see two posts ago)

The sick metal 11 by 17 tin plate...There Will be Blood!

Carrie (see previous post)

The 11 by 17 poster already happily framed in my house.



CUZ CARRIE IS MISSING

So, I am on a Carrie obsession...rewatched the original version, looking forward to new version with Chloe Grace Moretz in it, bought a sick poster of the new one, and then bought a sick tin sign of another version of the new movie poster...which brings us to The Dark Half. This is easily one of my favourite SK books and the film does it justice as well. It will be the kind of reading I need at doctor's offices with Mom (hopefully fewer of those soon). Also, I could not track down a free Carrie (or even a cheap used one), until I remembered the library, ahh the library. Free books. Weird.

The Way the Crow Flies

The Way the Crow Flies...Murder of Crows...oh yeah, they are in here. Murder mystery (not so much), the 1960's Canada, Spy stuff, and NAZIs...always NAZIs. Or Commies. Or somebody. I initially abandoned this novel five years ago at page 300 (it was bugging me for some reason), but now that I have had some time to sit and read it I find it much better. However, some may find it a little too detailed and full of arcane information. Abandoned, but fully restarted for the record. Anyway, her book Fall on Your Knees is a finer novel.

A Cool Lesson on Typography

The Atlantic Monthly often provides cool information about random stuff. Here is an example:

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/07/the-history-of-typography-in-stop-motion-animation/277376/

Enjoy!

The Way the Crow Flies

Fall on Your Knees is one of my favourite books of all time and I love her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet)...However, this is my second attempt at this novel about a murder mystery (sort of), living in the 1960's in Canada, and child abuse. I am farther/further along on the second attempt and I think the only problem was it was hard to focus on it the first time due to other distractions. Of course I just had a time-out to look up "farther/further" drat!

After Dachau

 

 

So I may have completely forgotten I had a blog. Or school was busy. Or Entourage distracted me. or I read a ton of magazines and comic books, but few novels or short stories or poems. Or aliens abducted my laptop. Or Cog is to blame. Or all of the above. Anyway, sorry for the absentee landowner issue. But I return with one GREAT book about the Holocaust but NOT really about it. If I told you the plot you would be ruined and tear down my house. Therefore, lets just say this makes my top 100 books of all time and leave it at that.

 

 

 

In case you think I was kidding about the magazines this is the current one. And it has already extended ny potential reading list to a graphic novel by Amy Niffenegger and a novella by...drat, I'll look into this as my brain is not connected to my material. Cheers! More to follow.