Monthly Archives: November 2012

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for October.

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Bought:

  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konisburg
  • The Michigan Mega Monsters (American Chillers #1), by Jonathan Rand
  • The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst
  • Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
  • The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate
  • The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Outpost, by Ann Aguirre
  • Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell

Read:

  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konisburg (classroom library)
  • The Michigan Mega Monsters (American Chillers #1), by Jonathan Rand
  • Emiko Superstar, by Mariko Tamaki
  • American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (classroom library)
  • The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst
  • Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
  • Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord, by Sarah MacLean (iphone/Kindle)
  • The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate

Big Screen: Arbitrage

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Yes, there are holes you could find in the plot after the fact.

BUT I really liked this movie, both in the moment and afterward. It was super tense, pulled out almost to the breaking point, and there were some really excellent performances.

I liked it even more after listening to director Nicholas Jarecki’s interview on The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell, my favorite and most often listened to podcast.

The one place I felt the movie really faltered was in the girlfriend/Richard Gere relationship. Make us think he actually loves her and this film would be that much stronger. As it is, she’s too irrelevant for some of the plot points.