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Currently reading:
An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles: Idk, I don't hate it, but I do wish I was finished with it already.
Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by GS Denning: Absolutely hilarious.
Posted:
Reviews of Act Like It, A Study in Charlotte, and Beastly Bones over at Book Riot; and a peek at the exhibition Japan Style over at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center.
Movies:
Ooof. This script needed A LOT more work. One thing you should know before watching this movie is that the first 2/3rds are a prologue. The actual story about the "Café Society" doesn't start until there's only about forty minutes left to go! But since we've fiddle-farted around with the prologue for so long, none of the secondary characters are fleshed out and the story has no emotional impact. The narration should have been done away with completely, Kristen Stewart and Not Michael Cera have zero chemistry together and are occasionally painful to watch, and even the art direction made me feel like I was wasting my time.
There is one good line in the movie, though: "Socrates once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' But the examined one is no bargain."
This week in heidenkindom:
Not much new and noteworthy to report, but spring is in the air and that makes me happy (most of the time). Here are some pictures of flowers!
Bonus:
When we think of novels that inspire people to do crazy things, we probably think of Catcher in the Rye. But Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther inspired so many people to commit suicide that it was banned in Leipzig, Denmark, and Italy. Even today, a rash of suicides in a single area is called The Werther Effect.
Have an excellent, Werther-free week, everyone!
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