What are you reading?

[vickihb2]

A strange thing happened last night. Currently enjoying a previously unread Granta (the magazine for new writing) thematic edition on Film. Half way through short story by Thomas Keneally about his shopping in Hollywood for a new briefcase in early 1980s. (The Handbag Store). Half way through story I come upstairs for dinner.

Look at Foxtel digital to see if any movies worth watching. Schindler's List is on.

Great film in so many respects, and even if they don't letterbox the format it is still worth watching on the small screen.

Watched film. Cried.

Downstairs to listen to some healing music (Gidon Kremer) lost myself in that wonderful music, then picked up the copy of Granta completely forgetting about the fact that I had been reading a TK short story before the film. I began to read the rest of the story. It turned out that the people who owned the Handbag Store where he was purchasing his new briefcase were three of the survivors from Oscar Schindler's factories and that is how TK started his interest in researching and writing the book.


What do you reckon are the odds on that happening in the same day?

Strange sad world we live in. Mysterious too.

[Kenny]

Have been chewing through msyteries and thrillers by the heapful lately, including:

*The latest by Elizabeth George. She's the best! If you haven't read them, start at the start.

*Three thrillers by Harlan Coben. Undemanding (I can read one of 'em in a night) but satisfying nevertheless.

*Now reading Robert Wilson's The Blind Man of Seville. Clasy, literate Spanish mystery. Wonderful!

[john boy]

I say the Tab would give you 1.5 million to one on that. Very strange place this universe.

[bud]

the onion
the chaser
and Ralph

[aj]

Had fun reading Nui Te Koha's review in The Herald Sun of Diana Krall's concert the other day. Apparently, her 'hair toss' is sexier than Cameron Diaz's !

Wow, I'm sorry I missed the gig now.

[isaacs]

She's got a fabulous "leg cross" too. I'm sorry I missed that.

[johnk]

great legs crossed or not

[Kenny]

DisneyWar - James B Stewart. Long-winded but eventually engrossing portrayal of Michael Eisner and Disney Co over 20 years. The deceit, the staggering sums of money paid for average or below performances. My God!

Steve Coll - Ghost Wars. I'm looking forward to diving into this, a Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of intelligence (ha ha) shenanigans and failures in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia that led to you know what.


Jelly's Blues - Howard Reich, William Gaines. Reich is jazz writer for the Chicago Tribune, and far from being well regarded in the US jazz community. Nevertheless, this is fantastic reading - even if I do have to take much it with a pinch of salt. If these guys are to believed, there is much more than bravado in jelly's claims to have invented jazz.