Books Read & Films Watched During October
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kittiwakeBooks Read
Homestead - Rosina Lippi
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
Aberysywyth Mon Amour - Malcolm Pryce
Two re-reads this month (the Muriel Sparks), but I also managed to release three novels onto my bookshelves from the unread books crates.
'Homestead' is not the sort of book I usually read, but I found it interesting, as it was set in a remote community with a distinctive culture that I knew nothing about. It is a set of short stories about the lives of women living in an isolated village in the Austrian Alps between the 1900's and the 1970's.
'Aberystwyth Mon Amour' is a a spoof of a hard-boiled Philip Marlow-type detective story, set in the mean streets of Aberystwyth. I really enjoyed it, but I suspect that it is especially amusing if you know Aber (as I do, having been to university there).
Cinema Trips
Lantana
xXx
Donnie Darko
Triple X is just a Bond movie without James Bond, so naturally it was fun to watch. It even had the clichéd Bond ending, with Triple X and 'the girl' on holiday together in an idyllic setting while the boss spied on them via satellite.
I really enjoyed Lantana. It is an Australian film that pretends to be a murder mystery, but is really about the tangled releationships between five couples. Apparently lanata is the name of the tangled shrubs that appear in the film. So it is symbolic of the relationships in the film as well as being where the dead body and a major clue were hidden.
I saw Donnie Darko this evening and it was fantastic, very unpredictable. The use of music was interesting (and I don't often notice film music!) especially in the school scene near the beginning, and the photography of the sky and scenery was beautiful. The imaginary giant rabbit was very scary, not in the least like Harvey; its metal mask brought skulls, myxamatosis and Herne the Hunter (because the rabbits ears were solid metal, looking more like horns than furry bunny ears) to mind. As the film ended, I was reminded of 'Carnival of Souls'.
Homestead - Rosina Lippi
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
Aberysywyth Mon Amour - Malcolm Pryce
Two re-reads this month (the Muriel Sparks), but I also managed to release three novels onto my bookshelves from the unread books crates.
'Homestead' is not the sort of book I usually read, but I found it interesting, as it was set in a remote community with a distinctive culture that I knew nothing about. It is a set of short stories about the lives of women living in an isolated village in the Austrian Alps between the 1900's and the 1970's.
'Aberystwyth Mon Amour' is a a spoof of a hard-boiled Philip Marlow-type detective story, set in the mean streets of Aberystwyth. I really enjoyed it, but I suspect that it is especially amusing if you know Aber (as I do, having been to university there).
Cinema Trips
Lantana
xXx
Donnie Darko
Triple X is just a Bond movie without James Bond, so naturally it was fun to watch. It even had the clichéd Bond ending, with Triple X and 'the girl' on holiday together in an idyllic setting while the boss spied on them via satellite.
I really enjoyed Lantana. It is an Australian film that pretends to be a murder mystery, but is really about the tangled releationships between five couples. Apparently lanata is the name of the tangled shrubs that appear in the film. So it is symbolic of the relationships in the film as well as being where the dead body and a major clue were hidden.
I saw Donnie Darko this evening and it was fantastic, very unpredictable. The use of music was interesting (and I don't often notice film music!) especially in the school scene near the beginning, and the photography of the sky and scenery was beautiful. The imaginary giant rabbit was very scary, not in the least like Harvey; its metal mask brought skulls, myxamatosis and Herne the Hunter (because the rabbits ears were solid metal, looking more like horns than furry bunny ears) to mind. As the film ended, I was reminded of 'Carnival of Souls'.
