James Squire 'Four Wives' Pilsener
Friday, 25 January 2013
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Silence breakers.
Some highlight reads from the past year, and a few classics to cross off the 'Books I really should read if I ever get around to it' list that everybody seems to have.
A bonus of this accomplishment is that I now have a few more books to talk about should I ever get into one of those really painful conversations with awkward, stretching silences with a new acquaintance who doesn't warm to verbal communication. In situations such as these a violent dose of verbal diarrhea on a subject that your acquaintance has little, or indeed zero interest in always seems the best solution.
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
1984 George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carre
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, 18 January 2013
I'll start with a list.
The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman
- Michelangelo Antonioni
l'Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Wong Kar-Wai
In The Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar-Wai
- Michael Haneke
- Steve McQueen
Shame (2012) Steve McQueen
Could a year possibly get any richer? I will get back to you in 11.5 months.
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