altariel | Weekend

The friends planning to visit us had to cancel at the last minute, which left us with a clean house and an unanticipated empty evening. We used it semi-profitably watching The Bourne Identity and then the end of the Sly remake of Get Carter which ends with Sly killing Michael Caine, saying a fond farewell to the daughter, and driving off into the sunset. Abominably wrong.

In town on Saturday I had book binged, picking up (on 3 for 2) Life of Pi (my reading group's next choice; anticipating ambivalently), The Lovely Bones (recced by

kathyh; anticipating greatly), and Eats, Shoots and Leaves (quick read, enjoyable enough). Also Le Guin's new book about planes, and Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium. Welcome to the pile. At the moment I'm reading a bunch of crime books by David Peace, set in Yorkshire during the 1970s - pretty bloody brutal and depressing, to be honest; Get Carter is invoked in one of the reviews on the blurb.