I saw this movie with Gail and her mother while we were visiting Breese. Well done, really well done. It’s a walk through the civil rights era through the eyes of a White House butler. It’s fictional but based on fact.
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Mr. Selfridge
This whole Masterpiece Theatre thing has invaded my life. I mean a good invasion, like vanilla ice cream being invaded by spicy chocolate sauce. Oh no, stop! You hearing me? Good invasion. Gail and I lap this crap up like fools. I mean, we need something to hold us over until season four of Downton Abbey.
I’ve started to pile up Elmore Leonard paperbacks because they’re so reliable. Leonard employs this tactic of having multiple main characters. This book was an ensemble of quirky and interesting men and women, each of whom you got to know very well. Maybe one character got a little extra time, but barely.
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Read 137 Books in One Year
Gail brought this little gem to my attention and I decided to use it as a test of the Amazon Prime free book option. I’ve been a member of Amazon Prime for about two years now and have not availed myself of the their free book-borrowing service at all. What a fool I am! It was a piece of cake.
I read every Louis L’Amour western novel over the course of about five years as a kid. It took me from maybe 6th through 10th grade. Hondo was L’Amour’s first and one of the earliest ones I recall reading. I grabbed it at an Open Books member half-price sale earlier this year, and I’ll certainly be on the lookout for grabbing more that way because it was a fun read.
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White House Down
We’ve had some bad weather here in Chicago. Bad weather means more movies for Gail and I, which often means bad movies (translate: fun movies). You got an issue with that? In terms of summer blockbusters, I’d rank this behind Fast and Furious 6 because the chases and fights were better there. That’s all.
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And Then There Were None
This is a classic mystery novel that I picked up at a half-price sale at Open Books. I like to keep a backlog of small to mid-sized fiction novels because I’m always reading one, no matter what’s on the Kindle. But this book is not small to mid-sized in content, it’s a giant, complex, enjoyable mystery that continues to influence pop culture today.
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Fast and Furious 6
This was bad, but I liked it, which is the worst possible scenario. The scenes fit into four categories: chase, fight, humorous interlude, plot. They got half of them right. Batting .500 really isn’t that bad when you think about it. I’m not talking about thinking really hard about it, just thinking.
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Longman and Eagle
Gail and I did the “tourist-in-our-own-city” thing this weekend and kicked it off last Friday by making our way up to Longman & Eagle for a late lunch/early dinner. It’s kinda like being an old person, eating dinner at 5:01 PM, but not really because for us it was lunch. In fact, it’s like the opposite of old. Picture this: We had lunch at 5pm so it should follow that we ate dinner at like midnight, before we partied. Okay, I know, that’s going to far, sorry.
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The Way Some People Die
This was a complicated little crime novel. I bet I get lost in about one out of ten crime novels. By lost I mean confused. I was so confused that it made the big reveal in this novel a little strange. I felt like I was being spoon fed without any clues and that makes me feel dumb. It also disappointments me because it takes away from the novel.