Saturday, February 13, 2016
First Lines: Josephine Tey - Brat Farrar
'Aunt Bee,' said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, 'was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a cleverer back-room boy than Noah?'
New Stuff: Otomo Yoshihide
Collecting versions of Hanns Eisler's Über den Selbstmord, and Otomo Yoshihide was my first choice, of course.
Friday, February 12, 2016
New York
USA. New Jersey. 1983. Downtown Manhattan with World Trade Center towers, seen from ‘lover’s lane’ in New Jersey. By Thomas Hoepker.
First Lines: John D. MacDonald - The Dreadful Lemon Sky
I was in deep sleep, alone aboard my houseboat, alone in the half acre of bed, alone in a sweaty dream of chase, fear, and monstrous predators.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
New Stuff: Twin Peaks. Season 1 (1990)
Before the new season is shown I'll need to watch the original series.
New Stuff: The Killing. Season 2
Since season 1 left us with a giant cliffhanger, we cetainly need to see the continuation of the story.
New Stuff: Theoder W. Adorno
I do have (and have read) most of his works in various editions, but this is a nice hardcover edition of his main works.
Pour elle (2008)
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Unusual, above-average thriller that solidly keeps its focus on the plot and its main characters.
New Stuff: Jules Verne
Written in 1863 but first published 131 years later (1994), the novel follows a young man who struggles unsuccessfully to live in a technologically advanced, but culturally backwards world. Often referred to as Verne's "lost novel", the work paints a grim, dystopian view of a technological future civilization.
New Stuff: Cosmic Web
J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies--a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers.
