Started Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey. It’s the eighth in The Expanse series.
Started Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey. It’s the eighth in The Expanse series.
Finished Persepolis Rising. It’s my most enjoyable read in the series since the first three, and perhaps since Leviathan Wakes.
I keep harping on the series’ narrative device that follows different characters, but I felt like in this book the plot steadily moved forward even with the point-of-view switches.
I enjoyed the theme of inevitable change, and Drummer and Avasarala expressed some poignant observations.
Watched Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
I thought it was good and deserving of the critical praise it received.
Watched Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. It’s No.29 on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—10th Anniversary list.
It was enjoyable noir. I found the story engaging without being difficult to follow nor overly bleak. Not that it was hopeful, just not the gut punch of something like Chinatown.
I’d recommend it to anyone who likes old movies, and I would watch it again.
Sometimes they do something to you, Tommy. They hurt you. And you get mad. And then you get mean. And they hurt you again. And you get meaner, and meaner till you ain’t no boy or no man any more, but just a walking chunk a mean-mad. Did they hurt you like that, Tommy?
Ma Joad on the injustice of prisons, The Grapes of Wrath