We were on the road most of July and didn't watch anything. But in August we settled into our apartment and had a few evenings free to use my Hoopla account. I like Hallmark mysteries but the
Darrow and Darrow pilot was a huge disappointment. Not only was it cheesy, the acting and script were embarrassingly bad. The way the case was solved went against one the
chief rules of detective fiction: a true mystery must include clues that the reader (or viewer) can see for themselves. The resolution of the mystery cannot come out of nowhere. Secondly was
Dog Jack (a true Civil War story), which was also poorly acted and scripted. On the bright side, we really enjoyed
C.S. Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert, which we watched at a friend's house.
My reading choices paid much bigger dividends. Except for
Le Morte d'Arthur, which I ditched after 15 hours (of the 30 hour audiobook), everything else I read in July was good:
Thornyhold by Mary Stewart,
The Musgraves by D.E. Stevenson,
The Truth and Beauty by Klavan, and the vintage novel,
The Clue of the Twisted Candle, by Edgar Wallace. In August I enjoyed Deborah Crombie's
A Share in Death. Because it was an audiobook, I could not skip over the swearing, but I thought Crombie's prose was exceptionally beautiful. I liked her detective and his sidekick too. Finally, I read Robert Farrar Capon's
The Supper of the Lamb, which I loved. (review forthcoming)
All of these titles are reviewed on Goodreads, but I cannot figure out how to link to my reviews with their new configurations.
Blessings,
1 comment:
We enjoyed The Most Reluctant Convert, but thought it was a little odd that a film would be mostly narration with little acted out.
I've enjoyed many of D. E. Stevenson's books the last few years, but have not read The Musgraves yet.
I shared books I've read and movies watched in my August Reflections post yesterday, but one good movie was The Viceroy's House, about the British leaving India and trying to leave behind a stable government.
I read/listened to Wendell Berry's Nathan Coulter and Hannah Coulter. I have mixed emotions about Berry.
Post a Comment