1. Apparently a Terminator movie happened in 2019 and I MISSED IT? I loved Terminator. I loved Terminator 2 even more. After that I think it's definitely diminishing returns but I hung in there. I didn't even hate Genisys (sorry). I watched half of Dark Fate last night and finished it tonight. Linda Hamilton reprised her Absolute Baddest Bitch and it was glorious.
2. I had picked up a library hold and then been baffled about why I had reserved it - British political satire? That does not sound remotely like me. These books either make me feel too dumb to get it or the satire is too broad and it's just cringey. This was not that. It was thoughtful, natural, frightening and propulsive. Each section was so different from the previous one, but before I had time to notice I would be completely swept up again. It was about trying to find your way at different stages of your life, deciding how far you would go to defend your beliefs, developing relationships and shifting realities and mysteries of various descriptions. I loved it.
3. My brother-in-law's book launch! Not much will get me out on a rainy and cold November evening after working in two libraries and facing myriad grade one-to-sixers with plenty of attitude (even to the gorgeous Library and Archives building), but my husband - the author's actual brother - is in Singapore, so I had no choice but to represent. My BIL is a law professor and constitutional law scholar whose big giant head shows up on CBC quite often, and he and his History Prof bestie wrote a big important book about the internment of Japanese Canadians during the years surrounding World War II, and how the law was used shamefully to perpetrate this injustice. It was a great discussion and both authors were very well-spoken, although the history prof had arguably the better socks.
4. I just got home from seeing a little theatre version of The Spitfire Grill with some friends - one of the cast members was a colleague of my friend Janet. Since apparently the biochemistry grad department is not going to stage a musical for my daughter to start in this year (rude), it was nice to get a small musical fix.
5. Geez what do you people want, I practically have culture dripping off my fingertips right now.
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British political satire? Sign me up! I've put this book on my "Books to Read" list which currently clocks in at 94 titles. Full disclosure: At first I confused the author, Jonathan Coe, with Jonathan Pie (political satirist comedian, fictional in the sense of Stephen Colbert in The Colbert Report). Also, I have to wonder if I will understand the political satire if it is British.
What?!?! Canada interned people of Japanese ancestry during WWII? Canada did it too? I think I need to add this book to my reading list, although it looks like it is not available in e-book format. I have a bad record these days of not reading in-real-print-and-paper books.
Congrats to your BIL! That's tremendous!
I have no feelings about Terminator, good or bad, but I do have a funny story. I went on a date, when I was about sixteen, to Terminator 2. I told the guy that I hadn't seen Terminator 1 (or just Terminator, I guess) and he said it wouldn't matter. I don't remember much about it except that...maybe something something got shot and then it healed something something? I don't know, it was a LONG time ago. Wait, I said this was a funny story. There is nothing funny about it at all! It's just a story. Not even a story! An anecdote. Anyway, I have never seen any other Terminator movie, other than that one, way back when.
I have only seen the first Terminator movie and only pretty recently (within the past few years) because Noah wanted to watch it. I liked it better than I thought I would.
Congrats to your BIL. I didn't know Canada also interred its citizens of Japanese descent. So I learned something (sad).
this happens to me all the time with library books-- I worry about my memory, honestly.
I LOVE THE TERMINATOR. I agree that Terminator 2 is better than 1. And yet, I have not seen any past 2???? Am I missing out, Allison? Sarah Connor is a badass and I wanted to be her when I grew up. (I did not become her.)
Yay for your BIL and his adorable bestie co-author and socks!
Your #5! Bwahahaha, I love it. I also recently picked up a hold at the library and have no idea why I put it on hold. I think it must be a mistake. I got it anyway, just in case, but I'm even more flummoxed now that I can leaf through it. What was I thinking?! Maybe it was a mistake... Do libraries make those kind of mistakes? (I figure you might actually know...)
Ha ha ha, not usually I don't think! Maybe whoever recommended it to you was just tripping.
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