some things i remember reading in 2005

1. Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Murakami
Kafka by the Shore - Murakami (both while not writing papers and working)
Snow - Pamuk
Gilead -
Howl's Moving Castle - Dianna Wynn-Jones
Everything is Illuminated -
Short stories - Gogol
Namesake - Lahiri
.....
...und so weiter, und so weiter...

the best of the Critique of Pure Reason
Satisfaction - Berns (he scans, we scan, so.)

my birthday movie

Munich - sadly interminable. hope for an end begins to grow when the initial end-point, the elimination of the terrorist medusa, evolves into a game of watching the non-Mossad Mossad get picked off. i was initially apprehensive about going because of story inaccuracies (not the soft whining about "relativism"), but was quite quickly turned off the film by my growing desire to complete my end-of year financial spreadsheet. as for non-damning faint praise, the lighting in some countries was great - though others really did feel like they were recorded in the 70s.

p.s. - still a good flick; good acting - geoffrey rush is fun, and ciaran hinds (aka Gaius Julius Caesar) is nice.

p.p.s - see here for someone who puts munich on top; i often love his regular opinions, but he is sadly leaving slate.