I finished listening to book one of the Tommy and Tuppence series, The Secret Adversary, which I enjoyed immensely. I also listened to Jane Eyre while reading along in an annotated version that was very helpful with the French phrases and obscure literary references. My other pick for Victober was Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. I am overly sensitive to relentless suffering, so this was not an easy read (even though there was an eventual happy ending).
As far as movies go my husband and I watched the original True Grit with John Wayne. We liked it, but it lacked some of the haunting beauty of the recent remake. We also watched the Netflix program called The Social Dilemma about how internet platforms are designed to make us tech addicts.
I watched a few Hallmark mysteries: Aurora Teagarden: A Bone to Pick, Death on Duty: A Hailey Dean mystery, 15 min of Dead Over Diamonds (terrible acting) Mystery 101: Dead Talk, Emma Fielding: More Bitter than Death (both male leads were awful actors). I'm used to bad acting in the romance movies because the actors and sets are more eye candy than anything, but in general the mysteries have been far superior in that department.
Anybody else read any Victorian lit this month? Watched any good, clean movies?
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I just read Knowing God for the first time a few years ago and enjoyed it. I am not a Calvinist, either--it's odd how so many Christian writers these days are. I can overlook those aspects in many books unless the author is really pushing certain tenets.
I've read and loved Gaskell's more well-known books and have wanted to delve into some of her others.
I watched an old Cary Grant movie that I had never heard of before: The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss. My husband and I watched The Current War (a couple of instances of God's name taken in vain, but otherwise clean). I've started the Lark Rise to Candleford series while using my exercise bike.
I wrote about the rest of what I read in my end-of-month post.
Thanks, Barbara!
I watched Meet Me in St. Louis - a wonderful old favorite of mine. To me, that era of film making was hands-down the best. Also watched The Shell Seekers - a Hallmark movie w/ Angela Lansbury. Nothing incredibly good but I appreciate nearly everything I've seen Lansbury do. I appreciate her graciousness & style that comes through no matter the film/show.
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