Books, movies
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claidheamhmorWith a little extra time on my hands, I've been watching a few movies and reading my books.
I watched the sort-of trilogy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset, (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It follows part of a day in the lives of two people who meet on a train and decide to get off in Vienna. I really loved the movies; they were romantic in a more real way than most films show. Very moving.
The Lake House was pretty interesting; starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, it's a love story between a guy who moves into a lakeside house two years before a woman, and they discover that they can exchange letters through time, through that two year gap. It's deeper than it might seem, with a nice nod to architecture and complicated relationships, with some time travel and consequences.
Onward is a Disney movie featuring a modern world where fantasy has become mundane; manticores run restaurants, pixies are Harley bikers, centaurs are cops, unicorns are strays the go through the garbage, and the protagonists are young elves in a quest for magic to see their dead father. Entertaining concepts, but a bit too saccharine-Disney.
Bookwise, I've been through MW Craven's Washington Poe detective novels (outstanding), and the first three of Viveca Sten's Sandhamm Murders series, set in Sweden. I'm busy with Daniel Cole's Rag Doll at the moment, set in London.
Phil Plait's Death from the Skies is fascinating. It deals with the risks we face from space, starting with meteorites and comets, then into the sun, supernovae, black holes, GRBs, galaxy collisions, dark galaxies, and the very end of the universe. It's actually a little too much to comprehend!
I watched the sort-of trilogy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset, (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It follows part of a day in the lives of two people who meet on a train and decide to get off in Vienna. I really loved the movies; they were romantic in a more real way than most films show. Very moving.
The Lake House was pretty interesting; starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, it's a love story between a guy who moves into a lakeside house two years before a woman, and they discover that they can exchange letters through time, through that two year gap. It's deeper than it might seem, with a nice nod to architecture and complicated relationships, with some time travel and consequences.
Onward is a Disney movie featuring a modern world where fantasy has become mundane; manticores run restaurants, pixies are Harley bikers, centaurs are cops, unicorns are strays the go through the garbage, and the protagonists are young elves in a quest for magic to see their dead father. Entertaining concepts, but a bit too saccharine-Disney.
Bookwise, I've been through MW Craven's Washington Poe detective novels (outstanding), and the first three of Viveca Sten's Sandhamm Murders series, set in Sweden. I'm busy with Daniel Cole's Rag Doll at the moment, set in London.
Phil Plait's Death from the Skies is fascinating. It deals with the risks we face from space, starting with meteorites and comets, then into the sun, supernovae, black holes, GRBs, galaxy collisions, dark galaxies, and the very end of the universe. It's actually a little too much to comprehend!
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