Books Read March

[bugshaw]

"So what do you like doing with your spare time, bugshaw?"
"Well, I like going to the cinema, and to gigs and comedy and art exhibitions"
And I can back it up with the evidence below. How I fit all this into a month boggles me.

Books read (4-9)
Natural History, Justina Robson (2003)
#tag, David Wake (2014)
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (2012)
Boneland, Alan Garner (2012)
The Bloody Red Baron, Kim Newman (1996)
A Madness of Angels, Kate Griffin (2009)

Films watched (21-35) (6 at the cinema, 4 DVD, 1 video, 2 tv, 2 stream)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Pitch Perfect
The Lego Movie
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Employee of the Month
Lady Vengeance
Under the Skin
The Godfather
Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier
Computer Chess
Calvary
Legend
Pa Negre/Black Bread
Starred Up

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (8-14)
Paul Klee (art, Tate Modern)
Beautiful Science (art, British Library)
Made in London (jewellery, Museum of London)
The Tyburn Tree (music, John Harle and Marc Almond, Cambridge Corn Exchange)
John Cooper Clarke (punk poetry, Cambridge, Junction) plus support Mike Garry, Dave Formula and the Finks, and a comedian from Bungay whose name I forget
Simon Munnery: Fylm (comedy, Leicester Square Theatre, London)
Veronese (art, National Gallery)

Books incoming: 1 (I, Phone: David Wake as I wanted a proper shiny paper copy)
This was the month in which I got a Kindle, pre-loaded with 512 books, so I hereby abandon all attempts to obtain no more books than I read. I seem to read fast on a Kindle, maybe the fewer words per line leap into my brain more quickly without having to do so much eye-tracking.

Lots of things were awesome! (Lego: everything is awesome!) But if I wait till I have time to write all about everything and how awesome it is, a) I won't get round to it and b) you will have to scroll down a half dozen screens. Read Code Name Verity, and go and see Under the Skin if you can (if you like existential sf films with weird scores)

Comments

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of stuff! I'm trying to decide between Captain America vs Noah and Lego vs Muppets for my cinema trip.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I recommend Cap and Lego! Noah looks pants, would be interested in Muppets but Lego is definitely awesome.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should do Cap and Noah (I tend to like Aranofsky).

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

If you're going to see Noah, it's probably best big for the spectacle. Lego is also good big for the detail...

[rmc28]

Cap and Lego! Winter Soldier is Awesome. Noah looks dire. Can take or leave muppets.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

Always nice to get on this list.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yes, Code Name Verity is v good. Read the sequel even though it's horribly depressing (much takes place in a concentration camp).

How DO you fit it all in????I haven't read that much this month, and I don't even have a pesky day job to interfere.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I read no books at all in February! I got most of my reading done when off sick from work and not able to concentrate on something as long as a feature film. The Kindle helped a lot. Thanks for the rec, I will look out for Rose Under Fire.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that third sentence should start with "I", sharing info rather than commanding you to do anything. The second book is good but different, less out-and-about spy adventuring, more about surviving a camp.