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Larry Fink And Friends Trying To Figure Out How To Save The (Corporate) World
If you have any ideas, please share them at this time.
Larry Fink: BlackRock Completely Different Operation Than You-Know-What, Formerly Run By You-Know-Who
He didn't use the P-word, or the BG-words. He never said, "unlike those assholes." He didn't have to, because it doesn't take Michel Foucault to read between these lines of BlackRock's Larry Fink.
Larry Fink Can't Fool Carl Icahn's Finely-Tuned Slight Detector
When the BlackRock chief wrote about his lament about the "short-term demands of the capital markets," he didn't mention anyone by name. But Carl Icahn can read between lines like "too many companies have cut capital expenditure and even increased debt to boost dividends and increase share buybacks," and he can't help but notice that […]
If Larry Fink Could Do It All Over Again, We'd Be Taking About RocaNegra Right Now
"A couple of weeks ago, I visited Mexico City—one of my favorite cities in the world. It's a remarkable place, not least because of the food, the museums, and the culture, but also because of the incredible economic changes taking place in Mexico right now—both in the capital and all around the country. Every time […]
Larry Fink Expands On His Dislike Of Hedge Funds
The capo dei capi of money managers doesn't like these young guns (and, in one notable case, not so young) spreading a lot of damned nonsense and nuisance in pursuit of their short-term goals. If this was not made clear enough in his letter to S&P500 CEOs (because Larry's the kind of guy who writes […]
Bonus Watch '14: BlackRock CEOs
Larry Fink > Lloyd Blankfein.
A Watershed Moment For Carl Icahn's Website
For the first time in more than a month, Carl Icahn has written about something other than eBay. Kind of*. "A Watershed Moment for Stockholder Participation" celebrates the fact that institutional investors have begun to stand up for themselves, and in Icahn's lifetime, to boot, at least in between digs at and rehashings of his […]
Larry Fink Puts Euro In His Ten-Year Death Pool
The euro could be in danger of disappearing within the next decade if France does not continue pushing economic reforms, BlackRock Capital boss Larry Fink said Tuesday. Fink expressed his concern about the health of one of Europe's largest economies at The New York Times's DealBook Conference, mentioning France's recent downgrade by Standard & Poor's. […]
Charlie Gasparino Confident In Tim Geithner's Ability To Run The Fed
"There is a lot of talk about who might be the next Fed chairman. Larry Fink is saying it could be Timothy Geithner. He's not a bad choice, he ran the Treasury Department and BlackRock is very close to the Treasury Department. Fink is telling friends on the street not to rule out Geithner." [FBN]
Charlie Gasparino: Larry Fink Wants A Piece Of Tim Geithner
According to CG, there's a desk at BlackRock waiting for the former Treasury Secretary when he's ready.
The Upside To Larry Fink Being Appointed The Next Treasury Secretary Is That It Puts Charlie Gasparino One Step Closer To Sleeping In The Lincoln Bedroom
"My survey of Wall Street executives [shows] Jack Lew in the running for this job…They think that he's the most likely guy to be Treasury Secretary at least that's according to the people I talked to: major Wall Street CEO's and executive suite players that I deal with…The other guy that's out there is Larry […]
BlackRock Employee Has Less Than One Hour To Stretch, Mentally Prepare For Shot At Olympic(-ish) Glory (Update)
BlackRock sees your piddling food eating contests and raises you a real challenge.
The contender: BlackRock portfolio manager
The event: Long jump, on the trading floor
The details: "The guy jumped 25 feet in college; market is biased at him going 15 feet and shorter. $2,000 pool so far. Larry Fink has $50 on the guy crossing 15 feet. Jump is at 3PM."
While sadly there are no special uniforms involved (the guy is wearing "work clothes and sneakers") and no sand pit, this is still nevertheless tremendously exciting. But first up, men's freestyle wrestling. We'll be back after this. Stay tuned.
At Some Point In The Future, BlackRock Might Sue Over Libor Manipulation
Or it might not. No one can say at this time. Charlie Gasparino reports:
BlackRock has $240 billion in money market assets, much of which is priced off of Libor. Thus even artificially depressing Libor a bit could mean that the firm's customers missed out on billions upon billions in investment returns. A BlackRock spokeswoman told FOX Business: "We are closely following the investigations as well as related litigation to assess the full implications and possible impact these events may have had on our clients and the cash markets. The implications of the various investigations and litigation are complex and it will be some time before greater clarity emerges."
Indeed, people inside BlackRock say assessing damages won't be easy. First it's unclear just how much the manipulation cost fund investors since the evidence so far shows that banks like Barclays only depressed their Libor submissions during certain periods of time, particularly during the financial crisis, when they didn't want to alert investors that they were being charged higher interest rates to borrow money.
All In All, Larry Fink Would Prefer It If You'd Buy His ETFs, Not SocGen's
Today's all-the-things-are-the-same-thing news, sort of, is Bloomberg's report of the tiff between BlackRock's Larry Fink and a guy at "Lyxor," which is the name of SocGen's ETF business and also a good way to make me think of the words "pyramid," "casino," "typo" and now "SocGen" all at the same time, which does not make […]
Larry Fink Is Writing A Dictionary
Efforts to create the first electronic "dictionary" defining derivatives and other financial instruments universally have moved ahead with the creation by US regulators of a committee to help develop it made up of BlackRock, the investment manager, CME Group, the derivatives exchange, and Google. Global Derivatives Lexicon Edges On [FT via HNM]
Who Will Give Deutsche Bank's Anshu Jain A Bank To Run?
Anshu Jain is the head of Deutsche Bank's Corporate & Investment Bank, sits on the management committee and oversees operations that produce upwards of 90 percent of the firm's profits in any given quarter. He's considered a "star" at DB and among those who follow his work and with CEO Josef Ackermann's contract expiring in […]
Larry Fink: We Don't Need No Stinking QE3
"I don't see any reason to think we need a QE3. We're in a soft patch today. We still have positive growth. I think expectations earlier this year were way too high, 3 percent or higher gross domestic product, I think we're going to be in the span of 2-ish percent, 2 and a half […]
BlackRock: Clean Up Your Filthy Workstations So We're Not Embarrassed On Live TV
Think you're above this edict? Okay, big shot, leave the mess. Larry Fink will personally lean your desk into a bin labeled "[your name]'s crap" and file his nails while you beg for it back. From: [redacated at BlackRock] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 03:12 PM To: NYC – PMG Bonds Subject: CNBC ON FLOOR […]
Lady Gaga To Perform At Robin Hood Dinner
Noted Gaga fan and Robin Hood board member Steve Cohen may have had a role in pushing for the performance, though it very well could have also been honoree Larry Fink, who demanded the Gags the after dinner entertainment portion of the evening. [Bloomberg, earlier]
Larry Fink's Sheer Fucking Awesomeness Pays Off Yet Again
The BlackRock founder and CEO, whose one mistake in a 30+ year career was momentarily second-guessing just how much ass he kicks, was awarded stock valued at $12.8 million, bringing his total shares in the firm to 1.38 million.
Brian Moynihan Pledges Devotion To BlackRock
Bank of America has no plans to fully sever strategic ties with BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan told analysts in Boston on Thursday, [despite] BlackRock's announcement on Wednesday it planned to sell 34.5 million shares owned by Bank of America, in a secondary offering that could cut BofA's ownership […]
Larry Fink: The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made Was Doubting My Own Sheer Fucking Awesomeness
As previously discussed, CNBC has been running a new series of interviews in which Becky Quick sits down with some financial heavyweight and asks him to discuss the "worst trade" he ever made. While seemingly the stuff of tedious job interviews, wherein applicants are asked to name their worst quality, such as being a workaholic, […]
How Did Kendrick Wilson III "Soothe" Stephen Schwarzman's "Bruised Feelings"?
In January, Kendrick Wilson III joined BlackRock as a vice-chairman, which is why he's the subject of a Bloomberg profile today. Forty some odd years ago, he was nicknamed "Wildcat" by his undergrad chums at Dartmouth, which is why he's the basis for the lead character in an upcoming erotic novel about life in the […]
Stuyvesant Town Hurt Larry Fink On Very Deep Level
When big money mangers make decisions that result in clients getting screwed, most people assume said managers don't really give a rat's ass. They still have their vaults of hundos to console them, and while they often write letters and release statements saying they're sorry, that they want to regain investors' trust, and so on […]


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PSA: There are still a few hours left to get these awesome Cyber Monday deals
We are nearing the end of Cyber Monday, one of the busiest shopping days on the web. And I'm sure there are a few of
Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T agree to work together to end text messaging spam
If you are sick and tired of "premium" text message spam that has cost millions of people lots of money, you'll be pleased to know
ISIS Mobile Wallet finally rolls out nationwide to Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile customers
ISIS Mobile Wallet – something that we've been hearing about for over a year now – is finally ready to go national. After a beta
Rumor: HTC M8 to arrive on all four major US carriers by end of Q1 2014
Late last week, we received leaked images of a device that could be the successor to the HTC One, currently known only as the HTC
HTC EVO 4G LTE will receive Android 4.3 and Sense 5 after all
You know what they say about rumors: we need to take them with a grain of salt. And as it turns out, the latest HTC
HTC reveals HTC One update plans for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
While the Sprint version of the HTC One was the first carrier-branded HTC One to receive the much-anticipated Android 4.3 update, many customers of other
Blue HTC One coming to Best Buy stores on September 15
The "metallic blue" HTC One is real, and it's coming to Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T starting September 15. This is according to an official press
New Android 4.3 ROM for HTC One claims to be based on leaked HTC update
While HTC has been talking a lot lately about Android 4.3, we haven't actually seen anything yet – until this morning. A pre-release version of
HTC One mini launches exclusively on AT&T on August 23
Earlier this morning, AT&T announced that it would be the exclusive launch partner in the US for the HTC One mini. It will be available
Dish gives up on Clearwire, nothing is in Sprint's way now
Dish Network has finally given up on all its attempts to acquire Clearwire, clearing the way for Sprint to complete the acquisition at a lofty

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Field Notes, vol 17
We're nine days into March, and spring has suddenly arrived. The songbirds know it; despite a snowfall on Saturday, they spend their time chittering in bushes and trees, especially the evergreens. The icicles know it, dripping in the brighter sun and temperatures above freezing for the first time in ages. Even the clocks know it. I seem to be the only one who cares about the vernal equinox, which gives us another eleven days of winter. Let's not rush things.
This outer shift is mirrored by an inward shift; it began in the latter part of February and has now begun to unfurl. After a couple weeks spent dreaming and scheming about a grand European adventure, I did some soul searching, and realised that I was falling back into old habits. One of my coping mechanisms when I was younger, and my illnesses took away most of my choices about life, was to plan epic trips I'd go on one day. A fairly innocuous coping mechanism to be sure, and as a result I can chat with you about the best games parks in Zambia or the night markets of Bangkok, but I don't need it anymore. I am living just where I want to be, for the first time since I was twenty-two. I don't know how long this good fortune will last, and it seems a shame to miss out on a month of my first Northeast spring, especially May, when presumably we've gotten over the slush and to the good bits. The world will always be there, changed, but still. Such romantic adventures can wait a bit; for now, I'd like to go adventuring closer to home. After all, I moved to upstate New York because I love its natural world and sense of history (both bigger and personal; my mother's family is descended from immigrants who came to farm in this region). I also love being within a train ride of big cities, big enough to be known worldwide, that I've yet to explore. And of course, I love my new, smaller city, and have just begun to scratch the surface of what it has to offer.
It took several days of wrestling with myself, but once I'd made the decision to spend my spring here, I felt at peace. I began to turn my attention to the here and now; instead of future adventures, I spent time and energy sorting out the apartment. I've put hung decoar and pictures and art on the walls (including a quotation by one of my favourite authors; any guesses who?), rearranged the cupboards and closets, and in the process begun to put down those first delicate roots. A lifetime of moving has made me hesitant to put nails in walls, but I pulled out a hammer and got to work. I'm amazed at how much my mood is lifted by decorated walls, and how much easier the reorganising has made my daily life, with what I need most frequently is just within reach. I did some early deep spring cleaning, and the sparkling result makes to easy to keep up with weekly cleaning maintenance. I've loved my apartment since I saw it, but now it feels like an organic part of me, and I feel deeply happy and content every time I walk through the door. Every aspect of daily life is just a bit sweeter, and I'm so glad I put forth the effort and energy. Of course, it's still a work in progress, but isn't everything? The trick is to enjoy the process, I suppose. And yes, I'll be inviting you on a photographic tour soon!
I am still going on a spring adventure, in case you're curious. It will just be to Baltimore, D.C., and New York City, and done via train instead of plane. I'm still terribly excited and will still be putting my backpack to good use. Feel free to share any suggestions, bookish or otherwise, for any of those cities! Or e-mail me if you'd like to meet up.
March has so far turned out to be a more organic reading month too; being bookish feels effortless again. First I read The Seeker by R.B. Chesterton as an audiobook, finishing it over the course of two days (apartment sorting lends itself well to audiobooks). It's a suspense novel that pays a bit of homage to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw: told entirely from one point of view, it's never quite clear to the reader whether the ghosts are real or in the narrator's head. Did I mention the narrator is a literature grad student who took a cabin for the winter to work on her dissertation? Who can resist a bookish heroine? If you're looking for a solid evil ghost tale (that includes creepy dolls! I love creepy dolls!), with a wonderfully wintry New England setting, souther Gothic undertones, and a smattering of Thoreau and the Transcendentalists for fun, you should definitely try this out. There are a few uneven bits, the ending felt a touch too abrupt, and there were several instances of hugely problematic depictions of mental illness (minor to the overall story but no less icky for that), but in my opinion it lives up to the promise of its cover! I enjoyed the audioversion too; I came across it while randomly browsing Hoopla. I decided to try it out, but wasn't expecting too much, so I was pleasantly surprised. I'll definitely be reading more of R.B. Chesterton's books (a pseudonym for the author's creepier novels) when I'm in the mood for a good, old-fashioned scare. And she'll definitely be on my R.I.P. list this year.
I next picked up a hardcover version of Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint, part of his Newford series. I discovered de Lint in 2007, when I first began book blogging and joined the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I loved him, and the way he creates distinctly North American urban folk/fairy tales and began working my way through the Newford series (not a traditional fantasy series, but all books set in the same fictional city inhabited by the same characters, who might be major characters in one and minor in another, sort of like Trollope's Barsetshire & Palliser books) in published order, but somehow I fell out of that habit. I think what happened is I read the two books he published under a pseudonym, which were both much darker, and they left me with so disturbed I ended up with a bit of an aversion to him. Luckily, last year I read his Jack, the Giant Killer retelling, as I'm treating myself to all of the Fairy Tale Series, edited by Terri Windling (I have yet to read a bad book from that series, all written by different authors, so if you're a fantasy lover as well, you ought to look it up), and it reminded me of how much I love his regular books. So I popped over to his section on one of my library visits, and chose this one based mainly on the title. My heart has a forest too. It turned out to be a real treat, combining First People/northern Native American folklore with that from the Southwest's traditions (both pre- and post-Spaniards) and Irish legends; in other words, a cultural mixing similar to the immigration that's shaped my country and de Lint's Canada. It felt wonderful to see that diversity valued and respected, and nothing in his various depictions set off any racist/stereotyping alarm bells for me (granted, I'm a white woman, so that's the judgement of an outsider, albeit who has read a smattering of Native American and Latin@ authors, including nonfiction about cultural appropriation/privilege issues), and I was certainly concerned about such possibilities when I began it. Of course, any fantasy book is going to invoke certain mythic or folklore figures, and play up cultural differences for the sake of the story, but all of the characters are individuals, and all of the belief systems felt equally valid, if that makes sense.
It's tricky to talk about such issues without a hundred disclaimers, isn't it?But I think it's important to try to do so, however clumsily. The novel itself is what I think of as classic de Lint: most of the characters are outside of mainstream North American society (musicians, artists, etc.) and poverty of various kinds is depicted. I really love that, to be honest; it's nice to break out of the middle class mode. There are lots of strong women, several of whom have curly hair and big eyes and tiny bodies that they are prone to dressing in oversized men's clothes (lol; if authors have a type, that's de Lint's). People make mistakes, which they can sometimes fix, and sometimes they can't. Love and respect are powerful forces, although the darker sides of human nature are powerful as well. There are wonderful descriptions of folk music. And the intersection between the magical world and the real one is just around every bend. Oh, and there are trees. I do love trees.
If any of that appeals to you, and you've yet to discover de Lint, definitely give him a try. If the sheer amount of options in the Newford books overwhelms you, you can always start with a standalone. Both Jack, the Giant Killer and The Little Country are my favourites that I've read so far, but I haven't read them all yet. ;) If you're already a de Lint fan, rest assured that Forests of the Heart is very satisfying. I'll be picking up more of his books, and sooner rather than later. Especially since the OUaT challenge is just around the corner!
Oh dear. I'm at 1600 words already; I've been working on this off and on between running down to switch out laundry loads. I'll talk about just one more book tonight then; tomorrow I'm off to stay with my grandmother, who has no internet, and I'm not sure how long I'm staying. So this is likely my only chance to blog this week, unless I get better at blogging from my phone. So feel free to read this post in chunks if it's too long for one session. ;)
4If my first two reads fell into fairly obvious genre categories, my third, The Night Counter by Alia Yunis, falls squarely into the 'magical realist, immigrant epic family saga' one (I also read it as an ebook, so it provided yet a third format for reading to my month). I say that with affection, as I find that genre irresistable. ;) Yunis, like most of her characters, is Lebanese American. I believe The Night Counter is her debut, and I really loved it; I know that sometimes, like any genre, these books can feel stale or too stereotypical, but this one manages to have all of the expected tropes but still be engaging and touching. I had a great time getting to know Fatimah Abdullah, an octongenarian who immigrated from Lebanon to the US upon her marriage at eighteen, and went on to have ten children. 992 days ago, Scheherazade appeared to her, and Fatimah knew she had 1,001 days to tell stories of her life, and then she would die. The book follows the last few days, and in between Fatimah's stories, Scheherazade peeks into the lives of the children and grandchildren and occasionally great grandchildren Fatimah mentions. The reason this works is that Yunis is fabulous at making each character's narrative voice distinct; a pet peeve of mine is when a novel has multiple narrators who all sound the same, even if their thoughts are different. I want each narrator to have their own rhythm and style of speaking; Yunis delivers an impressive range! And while they certainly span a spectrum of US destinies, they all feel real, instead of like the products of a writing workshop (you know what I mean if you've read much contemporary 'literary' work). There's a lot of humour in the book, including bits that had me laughing out loud, although there's pathos as well.
Ultimately, it's the kind of book that uses its wide range of characters to delve into how we create our lives, and the stories we craft out of whatever raw material we're given, although it does so in a lighthearted way. All of the characters felt terribly real to me, and they made the book a real joy to read. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but I definitely want to pick up more of Yunis' work and would recommend The Night Counter to any story lover. This is her only novel so far, but she's making a documentary about olive oil and Middle Eastern women that I hope I'll be able to watch.
As you can tell, I've had a really wonderful reading time so far this month. Circumstances have currently slowed down my reading, and made me more likely to reach for a novel than nonfiction, but when I am able to pick up a book, I've had nothing but good experiences so far.
What about you? Has March been full of favourites? Anything you'd especially recommend?
The Bride's Story, vol 1 & 2 by Kaori Mori (thoughts)
When I first began book blogging, back in 2007, I learned that "graphic novels" was not the euphemistic phrase I'd interpreted it as, but instead a category of books that combine art and words, like comics. Many of my favourite bloggers were big fans of graphic novels, and I enthusiastically began to the explore. Somehow over the years that enthusiasm fell by the wayside, and I haven't picked up a graphic novel in a couple of years, at least.
Now I must admit, though, that I am not a terribly good graphic novel reader. I don't get along well with the traditional comic style art, which means series like Fables or Sandman drive me nuts. I want the story, but I can't get past the aesthetics. I recognise this is a personal problem, and not some cosmic failure on the part of comics (…except for the ridiculous way they draw women…that part is a definite failure…), but trying to force myself to read them doesn't seem to work either.
I've had much better luck with other kinds of graphic novels, that include different types of art. In fact, I'm not sure why I stopped seeking these types of books out, as I can easily name all kinds of fabulous ones (…Aya, Castle Waiting, Bayou Love, The Arrival, Gray Horses, Pyongyang…that's off the top of my head). They combine the visual and text mediums to add up to truly fabulous storytelling.
But manga? I tried one volume of manga awhile ago, the first of Mori's Emma, and it made me feel almost illiterate. I couldn't figure out which order to read the frames in, which gave me a constant feeling of being jarred. I never read comics as a kid, which might be why I was confused (I have this problem with Western comic-style graphic novels too, just not so extreme). Once again, I recognise that the problem is me, not the books, but I decided I was too old to learn new tricks and would simply have to miss out on manga.
Then my dear friend Debi and I had a library expedition last month during her Comics February. She came armed with an extensive list, and I followed her along, browsing the shelves as any book lover would. I saw Kaori Mori's The Bride's Story in the manga section, which reminded me that NK Jemisin (one of my favourite authors) recommended it, and I decided to get the first two volumes to try out.
And the verdict? I will definitely be seeking out the rest of the series.
It's set in the central Asia of the 19th century, that land of steppes and silk roads, and the amount of loving detail that goes into each page creates an irresistible sense of place. I still get confused as to which order to read the frames in, but I'm getting better. Each volume includes a section that focuses on different handworks of the culture (first it was wood carving, then embroidery), which are my favourite bits. I can pore over those drawings, just wishing that they were in colour!
Now, I still have my reservations about the books. The bride in question is twenty and married to a twelve-year-old, who is drawn as very young looking, which creates some uncomfortable moments. She's also so much of a paragon that at moments I'm tempted to roll my eyes; I don't think we've come across something she's not good at yet. ;) And generally I found the story and characters a bit more shallow than ideal. But already the second volume has added some nuance, and so I think I just need to adapt to the episodic nature of manga. And if the heroine occasionally feels idealised, I can't fault how many female characters there are, each displaying strength in different ways. Meanwhile, the setting is certainly rich enough as it is!
If you enjoy folk culture, or get a faraway look in your eyes when you hear 'silk roads,' or are looking for an adventure series with a heroine instead of hero, you should give The Bride's Story a try. If, like me, you're new to manga, it will probably take you a volume or two to adapt to the new medium. But Mori must be winning me over: on my last library trip, the next volume wasn't on the shelf, and I found myself quite disappointed. Good thing Debi's did round-ups of all of the graphic novel reading done in February: the lists should keep me busy for awhile, as I rediscover this category of books!
A Brief Look at February's Reading
Well, February definitely included less reading than is typical for me, for both good and bad reasons. :) Let's play a bit with the numbers, shall we? Just for fun.
Of the 18 books that I read…
- 13 were fiction
- 12 were by authors I've read before
- 9 were novels set in historical time periods
- 7 were by authors of colour
- 6 were part of a series (not the same series)
- 6 were by UK authors
- 6 were by US authors
- 6 were by authors from other countries (Trinidad, France, Japan, Canada, and Israel)
- 5 were written by men
- 4 of those books written by men were nonfiction
- 4 were audiobooks
- 4 included supernatural elements
- 3 were graphic novels
- 2 were rereads
- 2 included mysterious murders
- 2 could be shelved in the romance section of the bookstore
- 1 was written before 1900
- 0 were ebooks (I have no clue how that happened, but my hands are not pleased)
I shall have more to say about analysing reading and my wishes for a bit more focused reading for the rest of the year soon, but for now, I'm amused to discover that historical fiction has taken over my novel reading! Here I thought I was a fantasy & mystery girl for my genre reads.
Let me know if you have questions about any of the books, even if it's just that the cover caught your eye & you'd like to hear more about what's inside. :)
I have high hopes for March, on both the reading and blogging fronts. It's the 3rd and I've already read two books, both started this month, and both regular length novels. That seems like a good sign! I'm off to snuggle under a blanket with Thistle, and see if I can't continue that reading streak.
Reading Snapshot: February 19th
It turned out last week's enthusiasm about ending my reading slump was premature. Instead I shifted from the bad kind of slump to the good kind, in which I neglected books in favour of my other hobbies! But that shifted on Monday night, which saw me read Kaoru Maori's The Bride's Story vol. 1 before bedtime (it's a manga, so it only takes as much time as I spent staring at all of the little detailed drawings) On Tuesday, I spent the afternoon reading The Innocents by Margery Sharp in one sitting. Yesterday afternoon I repeated that experience with Keep Still (an Eleanor Taylor Bland mystery), before feeling a craving for nonfiction that saw me (finally) finished The Morville Hours before a blessedly early bedtime (I've been having sleeping problems).
All of which meant that this morning, I had no problem cracking my books open as soon as my first pot of tea was brewed. First I read some of Atul Gawande's latest book, Being Mortal. I adore his two collections of medical essays (Better and Complications), but this one has taken me aback a bit. I actually started it last week, and the first sixty pages were so upsetting that I've decided to ban it from nighttime reading. I assumed from the title that was going to be a philosophical exploration of death, from both a doctor's and human's perspective. Instead, it's about the aging process, specifically about all of the ways our bodies will break down as we get older, and how the current nursing home system in the US dehumanises the frail and elderly while the medical establishment also fails to provide help for the chronic (vs urgent) health issues that come with aging. I'm about 120 pages in now and it's terribly depressing. I keep expecting Gawande to bring in more positive aging stories, but so far it's been pretty unrelentingly focused on how the older you get, the smaller your life becomes, and that nursing homes take away so much autonomy you'll end up depressed even if your physical needs are met. I've really enjoyed getting older, and am looking forward to my 30th birthday (it arrives next year), but this book is almost singlehandedly changing that. Gawande is a wonderful writer, and I live in hope that he'll eventually get to the good aspects of aging, so I'm sticking with it for now, but it's a very different book from his previous essay collections. An important book, one that's clearly aimed at changing policies and achieving more social justice for the elderly, but just be prepared.
My other read, Bosnia and Hercegovina: a Tradition Betrayed by Robert Donia & John Fine, is a scholarly summary of Bosnia's history, written in 1992/3, that sets out to debunk the media stereotypes about Balkan ethnic violence. I like this perspective, and that it's providing a big picture overview of a region with such a detailed, complicated history, but the writing style is not particularly engaging. If you already have an interest in the area, you'll be good, but if you're looking for a 'popular history' approach, you'll probably be bored. I'm quite happy to be reading it myself, and I'm planning to put together a reading list for my upcoming trip very soon!
I don't actually have an audiobook going at the moment (other than my bedtime one of The Warden); I finished The Voyage of the Narwhal (and must talk about it; so much goodness to deconstruct!) and podcasts have taken over my listening time. But I do plan to get one started in the next couple of days. I'd like to begin a nonfiction one, but the last two that I tried (A History of the World in 6 Glasses and The Divide) had both annoyed me enough to abandon within the first hour, so I'm a bit gunshy. For now, I'm thinking of giving another Nancy Goldstone book a go, since I really enjoyed Four Queens, or I have Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood out on CD from the library. I'm just not sure I'm up for two depressing, potentially nightmare inducing nonfiction books at once! Any nonfiction audiobook suggestions would thus be well appreciated. :D
The Dreaded Reading Slump (and a brief January retrospective)
Today, I updated my books read page with my February list. Although we're almost halfway through the month, it went quite quickly: I've only finished four books, and that includes my bedtime audiobook (as opposed to my regular audiobook, I only listen to this one to help me fall asleep and it has to fit strict 'no nightmare inducing' criteria; lately Georgette Heyer has been fitting the bill but now I've discovered some Trollope audiobooks and plan to reread the Barsetshire Chronicles). Considering I usually read twenty to thirty books a month, I think it's official: I've been in a reading slump.
On Monday, I was feeling a bit despondent, for no apparent reason. And then I realised I'd barely been opening books at all, and that I couldn't point to much else I've been doing instead, other than trip planning and some knitting. But certainly nothing solid enough to account for only reading four books over almost two weeks! No wonder I felt a bit lost and disconnected.
I have no idea what causes reading slumps: they can certainly be related to my health, as during flare-ups my brain finds it more difficult to read and I can't always physically hold a book. But I tend to realise this nowadays and opt for lighter or more engaging books during those times, and my ereader fixes the second problem. This time, I just seemed to feel antsy whenever I sat down to read, and found myself reaching for my phone and some internet browsing instead, in between the little daily tasks of living, and then suddenly my day had disappeared.
So I did the only logical thing on Monday night: I went to my bookcase and picked up Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo Rising. I only fit in fifty pages before bed, but I woke up on Tuesday wanting nothing more than to get back to the book. I finished it yesterday (leading to a later than usual evening walk for Thistle), and I believe it's broken my slump and helped turn around my mood. I can't get back the potential of the lost days of early February, but I hope to read as much as possible during the rest of the month! This experience has reminded me to check in with myself; hopefully in the future I'll notice more quickly when a reading slump has begun, so that I can reach for a trusted author to break me out of it. After all, what's a reader without books? In my case, a dissatisfied, restless, touchy sort of creature who focuses on improving everything in sight, thus overlooking the quiet richness of her life. Thank goodness the remedy is so simple.
Do reading slumps affect your moods, or vice versa? I genuinely seem to become a sadder person if I go without at least an hour or two of reading a day.
To end on a more cheerful note, do all of you WordPress bloggers know about the 'gallery' feature? I'm using it on my books read page this year, and it's so fun (and easy) to see a collage of covers representing each month! Here's a pictorial representation of January:
It was an interesting month for me, with a mix of new authors and old favourites, but definitely heavily weighted towards fiction. I realise I didn't blog about many of these books, so this is your chance to ask me questions about any that might catch your eye!
Reading Snapshot: February 7th, 2015
To be honest, I haven't been doing much regular reading over the past few days. Instead, I've been taken over by planning my next adventure! On Thursday I went to the library, walked straight to their travel section, and gathered giant piles of guidebooks to sort through over a hot chocolate from their cafe, eventually winnowing the pile to a reasonable few to bring home with me. So my coffee table is full of guidebooks, and my notebooks are full of scribbled potential itineraries, and my mind is full of dreams.
I had actually hoped to go somewhere in Asia next, as I've yet to visit that continent, but I'm not sure if my body could handle the twenty four plus hours required to get there. Europe is about half of that distance, so it seemed a good compromise and way for me to tell if a future Asian flight is in the cards. Then I thought about Turkey, which I've dreamed about for ages, but it's one of my mom's dream destinations too. So I'm putting that on hold for a couple of years until we can go together. That doesn't mean I have to give up the entire Ottoman empire though! As you can see, I've narrowed my choices down to Hungary or the Balkans or a bit of both. My primary interests for the trip include folklore, forests, cafes, and oodles of history; this area offers all of that and more in spades. Now my only problem is trying to narrow my focus down to fit comfortably in four weeks. All suggestions warmly appreciated as far as wonderful places you've been in this area, especially outside of Budapest and the Adriatic Coast, which seem to be the focus of most guidebooks and travel blogs.
Funnily enough, writing this post and updating my Library Loot post with book titles (and the second video with my nonfiction selections, if you were waiting for that) has me itching to get back to ordinary reading. It's snowing again, so I think I'll go curl up on my couch with a book; it's time for me to pick a new novel to start. I love surveying my bookcases, full of potential new favourites, before settling on just one to read next. It's the same type of thrill as choosing a new country to explore. And certainly cheaper and simpler besides. ;)
Library Loot: January 2014
It's a snow day here! All I want to do is gaze admiringly out of the window, sip tea, and go for occasional bundled up walks. Luckily, last week I recorded and uploaded a video about my one trip to the library in January! So I can share that with you and not have to spend a long time at my computer, without the magical view. I'm living in a snowglobe, and it's blissful.
Tomorrow I'll add a list of the titles mentioned so you have that for reference. For now, hopefully you can note down anything that looks interesting while viewing! And there should be a second part to this video following just as soon as Vimeo resets my weekly upload limit. Enjoy!
ETA: I should know better than to put a deadline here; it simply tempts fate too much. But a few days later than intended, here is the second video and that list of titles. I've copied & pasted from my library account, so it's in no particular order. And just tidying up the library formatting has upset my hands, so I can't italicise or put them all in neat bullets today.
All About Love by bell hooks
Spirits of the Ordinary by Kathleen Alcala
Keep Still by Eleanor Taylor Bland
The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust
Babel Tower by AS Byatt
Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie
Love Marriage by VV Ganeshananthan
Beyond the Limbo Silence by Elizabeth Nunez
Ru by Kim Thuy
Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
The Languages of Love by Sara Maitland
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Bosnia and Hercegovina by Robert J. Donia
Ghosts in the Middle Ages by Jean Claude Schmitt
Heavens Unearthed in Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales by Matt Kane
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift
Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard by Nicholas Money
Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Present Darkness by Mall Nunn
Runemaker by Tiina Nunnally
Temptations of Power by Shadi Hamid
Women in Purple by Judith Herrin
These Works Opened My Heart
From childhood on, I found many of my angels in favorite authors, writers who created books that enabled me to understand life with greater complexity. These works opened my heart to compassion, forgiveness, and understanding.
-bell hooks, All About Love
It's snowing outside my window, and Thistle and I just got back from a delicious wintry walk, which makes me want to write about something seasonally appropriate. So let's talk about With the Lapps in the High Mountains by Emilie Demant Hatt. Hatt was a Dane born in the late nineteenth century with an adventurous soul. In her early 30s, she went with her sister on a train trip across Lapland, which sparked her interest in the native Lapp people (nowadays called Sami, in accordance with their own language, so that's what I'll use from now on). She arranged to live with them for a year, from the summer of 1907 to 1908, and in 1913 published a book about the experience. 100 years later, Barbara Sjoholm published her translation, so that English speakers could go on Hatt's adventure with her (Sjoholm also has a website with more information about Hatt if you're interested).
Usually, when reading historical travelogues, you find yourself making all kinds of apologies for the racism or sexism or colonialism you encounter therein. With the Lapps in the High Mountains is stunningly free of such prejudice; Hatt was writing at a time when most Scandinavians considered the Sami dirty, lazy people whose reindeer got in the way of honest farmers and whose children should be sent to state sponsored boarding schools in order to become civilised (sound familiar?). Hatt confronts these beliefs head on, demonstrating in the account of Sami daily life how mistaken they are, and occasionally explaining how destructive state policies were to their traditional, nomadic lifestyle. There is a shade of pastoral idealism at times, but no more than you would find nowadays, in a blogger waxing lyrical about the simple pleasures of farm life, and Hatt never minimizes the challenges of such a life.
This genuine curiousity and respect for the Sami makes for a wonderfully engaging travelogue. No detail of daily life is too small to escape Hatt's observations, and she easily transports her readers into a Sami tent, drinking coffee around the smoking fire after climbing into your furs, or into the great northern woods in winter, skiing in pursuit of the reindeer herd. At one point, she's trying to sew a new dress in time for a gathering and finding it difficult in winter conditions (little light, except what the smoky fire provides). She shares the following moment, which illustrates a major difference between Lapp life and her own background:
One day when we were going to set off on trek, and all was in order, the tent taken down, the sleds packed, and we were just sitting outside waiting for the pack reindeer, Sara said, "You must take out your needlework, you don't have time to sit idle if the dress is going to get done." That was true enough and you could just as well, if you didn't freeze, sit outside and sew under the open sky in winter as well as summer. I hauled out my sewing bag and got far with the hemming before the reindeer came.
For tha Lapps, the wilderness, forest, and mountains are their ordinary living room. Their home is where they happen to find themselves. They don't need four walls to feel secure or to work at household tasks.
I'm going to share another passage, so you get an idea of her capacity for scenic description:
The string glided slowly upward, steadily over the snow to the high mountains. Everything was so strangely shapeless and unreal that night. We went forward in a numb white-gray darkness that could never lighten. A sharp wind blew around the top layer of fine snow; in circles and streams it glided over the endless expanses. No other sound was heard than the fine crunching of the snow and the footsteps of the reindeer. Something soft, half unseen, once came brushing closely past, rapid and ghostlike up from the mountain slope. It was a pair of white foxes.
Of course, such passages are actually Sjoholm's translation; I don't read Danish, so I can't actually compare her to Hatt's original, but reading the book, I always got a strong sense of narrative voice that 'felt' right for the period and place. So I feel comfortable praising the translation! This is a real gem of a book, and Sjoholm did us all a favour in making it available for an English reading audience (she did me the more personal favour of sending me a review copy almost two years ago, which didn't influence my love for the book except to make me happy I had a copy for my own shelves).
There are not a lot of classic travelogues to begin with, and especially there are not many that are sensitive portrayals of a culture and environment different from the author's own. This makes With the Lapps in the High Mountains all the more valuable, but it also stands on its own merits. Emilie Demant Hatt was an excellent story teller and the kind of quietly adventurous woman who I just love. Anyone curious about how others live, or who enjoys travel lit, or Scandinavia, or reading 'forgotten' classics will have a grand time with this. Really, I can't imagine a reader who wouldn't enjoy it!
The Fairyland Series by Catherynne Valente (thoughts so far)
A quick blog search revealed that I haven't talked about another of my favourite new author discoveries from last year: Cathrynne Valente (it was a banner year for speculative fiction). As I treated myself to The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two to start the new year off right (the third in a series), this seems like a good time to mention her. I prefer discussing series as unit, so this post will generally address the first three in the Fairyland series, as the final two haven't been published yet, and I haven't yet read the prequel. I doubt I'll include any plot spoilers, but if I do they'll be clearly marked, so you can read on safely.
The first in this series is The Girl Who Cirvcumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. I remember hearing about it when it was first published, but the title made me think it would be too twee for me. So I waited for ages; I can't remember what made me decide to pick it up last year, but I almost immediately realised my mistake. While nominally children's books (I think they're marketed as 'middle grade'), these function perfectly well for the adult reader too; they reminded me of a lot of Neil Gaiman's work this way. Only instead of veering towards the creepy/horror side of the genre (a la Coraline or The Ocean at the End of the Lane), these are firmly in the fantasy/adventure in fairyland mold. I don't read many children's/young adult books, so I don't make concessions to the ones that I do read; from that perspective, I think any adult reader will be fully engaged with these novels. In other words, imagine the best possible novel to come under that title, and you've got a good idea of the series.
I absolutely adore stylised writing and Valente has that Victorian omniscient, slightly paternalistic narrative voice down. I'm going to quote the first paragraph of the first book, as it gives you an excellent idea of the feel of the entire series.
Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her and flew to her window one evening just after her twelfth birthday. He was dressed in a green smoking jacket, and a green carriage-driver's cloak, and green jodphurs, and green snowshoes. It is very cold above the clouds in the shantytowns where the Six Winds live.
Oh! Just writing that out made me want to run away with the Green Wind again on his flying leopard and follow September's adventures. Anyway, this style could easily tip over into smarminess or mockery or purple prose in the hands of a lesser author. Luckily for all of us, Valente has her talent firmly in hand: the narrator maintains an even keel throughout the book, bringing the story to life with a tender love for all of the little details.
On a minor note, I love that Valente pays attention to dress; I happen to love textiles and clothing and dressing, but it's a rare novelist who shares that passion. Valente does: in each book September has at least one piece of magical, comforting clothing. And who can resist the preciseness of the Green Wind's outfits?
Each book of the series so far has a slightly different setting, although all are 'in Faerie,' as one might say. That means there are always new places to stumble across, and different types of challenges for September to meet, which is nice. The first two books also stand alone, with self-contained stories. The third, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, which I just read, has a self-contained story but then a cliffhanger ending that put me in a bit of a snit since the fourth one isn't available yet. Luckily I only have to wait a few months!
While the settings are lush, and the writing delightful, the novels' hearts are in the characters: September herself will easily win a reader over, precisely because she doesn't fit into the 'Mary Sue' mode. She's not the strongest or the cleverest or the bravest or the best behaved; instead she finds those qualities within her (except for the last one) as she needs to. She is stout and loyal and equipped with a strong moral compass, which makes her eminently suited for fairyland adventuring. And she has such a wonderful name; it's probably a good thing I don't plan to have children, because otherwise I'd be tempted to name them all for months or days of the week, a la Valente. Along the way, she picks up some wonderfully loveable friends (including one who believes his father was a library), and her relationships with them morph over the series. I love that Valente doesn't present friendship and love as all smooth sailing; instead she captures the confusion and ambiguities that can appear in any relationship, but particularly when you're undergoing a change as dramatic as growing up (by the third one, September is fourteen). Even though I'm in my late twenties, I easily identified with September. I think this is because she's always presented as a subject in her own right, rather than objectified as can sometimes happen in children's lit. Despite the pseudo-victorian narrative voice, nothing is dumbed down for either September or her friends or the reader. They must make heart-wrenching decisions and live with the consequences, and while they experience the joy and magic of adventuring, they also feel terror and loneliness as well. In other words, they teem with life.
I'm rambling again, aren't I? This is the problem with talking about books I truly love; I have far too much to say to fit in one blog post, so I tend to just gush incoherently instead. The themes in these books are rich and reflective of human problems at all stages of life. Each of the books has made me laugh and cry, as scenes shift, and throughout I've been entranced. I know I'm speaking in generalities, but I want each of you to discover these for yourself, like I did. I can't recommend the series highly enough: each book is the whole package (plot, characters, writing style) and gleams like a precious jewel. Reading these books will be especially satisfying, I suspect, for those of us who have always been bookish; they felt like a homecoming, for me at least. I cannot wait to discover what the next book brings for September and her friends.


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An increase in thefts of air conditioners and other metal items has the Charles County Sheriff's Office turning up the heat and looking to the community to help prevent future thefts.
According to information in a release from the sheriff's office, air conditioners are becoming hot items to sell for cash.
Steven Bell, facility manager for Potomac Metals in Waldorf, said that an air-conditioning unit, if broken down properly, could be worth about $80.
Sheriff's office spokeswoman Diane Richardson said that this is not a new problem, but one officers are taking a new attitude toward.
Richardson said the thefts typically occur at vacant homes but that there are occasions where occupied homes become targets.
Vacant or not, the sheriff's office emphasizes that there still are consequences.
"Even though most of these thefts are occurring at vacant homes, it doesn't mean that it's any less of a crime," Sheriff Rex Coffey (D) said in a release. "Someone still has to pay for it, whether it's the homeowner or insurance companies. We want to make sure residents know what to look for and understand how these thieves operate so that we can put a stop to it."
Coffey said there already have been many arrests made but that the sheriff's office is seeking help from the community.
"We are counting on our communities — who are already very good to us — to help us out."
Coffey encouraged everyone to be a "nosy neighbor."
A recent incident resulted in catching thieves based on a homeowner's hunch.
On June 24, officers went to a call for suspicious activity at a La Plata home. The homeowner called the sheriff's office to report that two people knocked on his front door and asked for someone else. When the homeowner explained that there was no one there by the name given, the couple left.
The suspiciousness of the situation convinced the homeowner to write down the tag number from the couple's car. Shortly after, he walked around the outside of his home and noticed his air conditioner had been tampered with and was sitting near his carport.
Detectives quickly tracked the couple down and learned that they were serial thieves.
"That call made a difference, and it's exactly what we want our residents to do," Coffey said in the release.
Defectives said that in some cases, people will target houses that are occupied; someone will knock on a resident's door and provide an excuse as to why they are there if someone answers the door.
The excuses used include asking for directions or saying a dog ran behind the home or the person is looking for someone.
If no one answers, they go to the backyard and swipe the air-conditioning unit or break in to the home to steal metal piping or other items.
Richardson said that the sheriff's office is asking for more nosy neighbors.
She said that often after a theft, officers will canvass the neighborhood and hear people say they saw something out of the ordinary but didn't call.
"We're trying to reach out to these people and say it's OK to call us no matter what happens," Richardson said.
Anyone with information regarding these types of thefts is asked to call Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS. All callers remain anonymous. If a tip leads to an arrest, the caller could get a cash reward of up to $1,000.
"By working with our residents, I believe we can apprehend these criminals much faster," Coffey said in the release.


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The list of "Second Amendment Pastors" has a PATHETIC showing of 2 names in Idaho. One is a Rabbi in North Idaho. Are their racists in Idaho? Of course their are, but there are also a LOT of people who understand how the media has blurred a VERY important line: The difference between "Jewish" and "Zionist."
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June 14 2013, 04:49 PM
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Re: Starship Size Argument thread
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Just to be clear, I wasn't arguing that a larger ship needs more windows (in fact I said that I didn't like the tendency to cover the surface with windows and preferred far fewer windows on my ships). It's just that if you design a ship at a particular size with a certain number of windows that seem to indicate a certain number of decks, and then say the ship is now twice as big without making any changes other than just scaling the windows and ports that are already there, well that just seems lazy.
As I said earlier in the thread, it really reminded me of this:
Thank you. That's what I've been trying to say as well, through two different threads no less.
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So I just saw another Heineken commercial talking about their mini kegs again. They were showing all these houses and putting their bar name on the the screen. Then they zoom into the house of 30 people enjoying themselves and you see a guy fire up one of these mini draft systems.
I always have a good laugh seeing these commercials and putting this "bar" against my homebuilt keg cooler at the house.
Thought I would share my amusement with everyone.
Well ya, because that's really all it takes to get 30 people to come over to your house is a couple of mini kegs of Heineken, right?
I love it, To have a party with mini kegs for 30 people you will need 10 of those mini's not to mention everyone has to look like morons when your all waiting to dispense beer out of one tap. But we all know that a true homebar revolves around your kegerator
Arneba, that is a beautiful tool you have in you possession.
Yeah I was pleased with it. Now I just have to post pictures of the top all finished. If only I could find my damn camera
Have you guys seen these draft systems for those mini kegs? I was hanging out with my cousin the other day and he was talking about getting the Krups Heineken draft system for $300! I told him for that price we could build a kegerator for a 1/2 barrel keg.http://www.cigarextras.com/index.asp...OD&ProdID=1515
Yeah its nuts, half the reason that its that expensive is because its made by Krups. The other reason is because they are marketing to the "swank, hip, Heinekin drinking crowd" That just wants a novelty item, that they will probably only use a few times. Where as our kegerators cost about the same, hold more beer, and look a hell of alot cooler!!
Yep, you just summed up the difference between someone with passion and someone without.
I love how I can just wake up, walk past the keg cooler with two kegs of cold brew on tap, and smile in the morning.


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Love Marion's dress!
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Love Marion's dress!
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I have a major girl crush on Marion Cotillard ever since I saw her in A Good Year, but I think it's a French girl thing, because I have a crush on Emma De Caunes as well. Marion looks absolutely amazing in this dress, but then again, she'd also be beautiful in a burlap sack.
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None of these were favs of mine.
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I think Marion and America look great.
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Ever since Angie wore grey last year it's been the IT color all of a sudden!
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This is a very nice movie about two teens in a mental institution.
David (played by Lucas Haas) is afraid to be touched by other people, and
Lisa (brilliantly played by Brittany Murphy) says everything in rhymes, and
seems to have a split personality.
The two become friends, and unconsciously help each others overcome their
Also with Sidney Poitier as the head of the mental institution.
If you like this film, maybe you also like "Her last chance" with Kellie Martin! Rating: 9/10
This may have come about under the aegis of Oprah Winfrey, but don't let
that put you off; "David and Lisa" is far more watchable than her
self-titled opus. (Another British viewer complained that She Who Thinks
She's God appears in an intro before the movie starts; this is the case on
video and on its US screenings, but I watched the movie on BBC2 and her
appearance was removed, for which much thanks. Less justifiably, the Harpo
logo was also absent - I don't like Oprah, but I like end
Though Sidney Poitier is top-billed, Lukas Haas is the real star of the movie; he plays an articulate and intelligent young man who's very disturbed - he suffers from a recurring nightmare involving "clock executions," and has a severe phobia about being touched, all of which accounts for his widowed mother (Allison Janney from "The West Wing") sending him to a special institution.
This movie is basically a love story, and the object of his affections - though it takes him a while to realise it - is a fellow patient played by Brittany Murphy (anyone seeing this after "Girl, Interrupted" and "Don't Say A Word" will probably not be surprised). Given to speaking in rhyme to make her internal demons go away, his interest is at first clinical, but eventually...
Compared to "The Bell Jar" (the book, that is - I haven't seen the movie version), this isn't particularly wrenching, but it isn't meant to be. Blessedly non-sick-making, sensitively told and generally well-performed (some of the freakouts may seem overacted, but how far is too far in cases like this?), "David and Lisa" is an involving story right up to its final scene - there's no real miracle cure, instead a suggestion that they're heading in the right direction. (And unusually for a love story, the two never kiss.)
And to the person who complained about Marco Beltrami's music; in addition to being above-average for TV, it must have been a refreshing change for him to score a movie not about serial killings. Fans of him (and Haas and Murphy) should tune in.
In hindsight, the death of Sidney Poitier's film career probably began in
1989 with "Driving Miss Daisy". A huge "sleeper" hit for Morgan Freeman,
which he capitalised on with later roles in "The Shawshank Redemption" and
As a result, the rare role of "elderly black man" in cinema (matched for obscurity only by the roles of Asian or disabled actors in Hollywood circles) has fallen in favour of Freeman. Not that that's a bad thing, Morgan is a fine actor, but to waste one of the major talents of the cinema (one of the fifty greatest film actors of all time? Twenty? Ten?) on tv movies is a sad waste. Sidney has starred in just eleven films in the last two decades, only five of them for the big screen.
And so, being a huge Poitier fan I rented out "David and Lisa", a love story between two patients at a home for the mentally ill. Lukas Haas and Brittany Murphy do well as the titular characters, while Sidney is, as expected, the greatest performer in the piece.
Yet while Haas gets to do all the real "acting", Sidney is required here to do nothing more than go through the motions, with no material to get his teeth into. Instead, he is called upon to deliver such saccharine lines as "If you don't fall in love with life then you are more dead than alive". His attempts to wade through what is essentially a treacly, self-consciously "heart-warming" story are blighted at every turn. His swift body language and familiar-yet-well-mannered facial array are slowed by the sentimental incidental music that punctuates any "touching" plot development.
For a film that professes to be about mental illness, it can be occasionally sloppy in it's presentation of said theme. The movie is guilty of perpetuating the widely-held myth that "Schizophrenia" refers to multiple personality disorders, while the notion of illnesses than can be cured by love is just too easy an option for a satisfactory resolution.
Ultimately, this is not a bad film, but then neither is it a particularly good one. I gave it average (5) marks, as, like the majority of tv movies, it is a sanitised work, content to sit there and occupy the attention for 85 minutes then go away again leaving no real lasting impression. It's not horrible, it's not bad for your health, but then neither will it alter your life in any great way. The film's undercurrent is the sort of self-aggrandising, pious worthiness that gives liberalism a bad name. In fact, the whole movie walks a tightrope between decent entertainment and preachy sentiment. The only thing it needs to take it over the edge into a swarfegic glob of overstated emotion is a introduction by Oprah Winfrey, where she talks about the film being a "timeless love story" and "love gives us the power to live".
Oh, wait a minute. She does do that, doesn't she? Damn.
I stumbled upon this movie one night at 1 am and I kept me away from the bed! The story is beautiful and sensitive, and the characters beautifully portrayed by talented actors. The complicated, yet wonderful psychology of these 2 persons can equal 2 dozens of explosions in any blockbuster movie. Too bad the movie isn't longer. I have a little gripe against the end, maybe a bit too mushy, but still, wonderful piece of cinema. Bravo.
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This is a film that haunts you for hours, even days, after the credits roll. The story is simple enough, It's about a distraught mother who boards her son David (Lukas Haas) in a psychiatric school for observation under the care of a top psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier), His problem is undiagnosed and all previous treatments have proved futile. At the school he lives very much as a recluse and has an abiding fear that he may die if anyone as much as touches him. This phobia does not prevent him from keeping pace with the latest medical literature. He also has an obsession with clocks and that time is all important. Lukas Haas's portrayal of the mentally sick David is great to watch, really compelling acting- the furtive eye movements, the frightened glances, the rebellious moods, the shambling walk - he is a totally believable psychiatric case. Balancing David's explosive outbursts, we have the cool, calm, unruffled doctor making every attempt to get through to the young patient, but never forcibly, never over-stepping the mark. There are a number of scenes that really excite me. An outburst of anger by David who is crazed with the idea that "time" is uncontrollable, unstoppable. Another crazy outburst about medicos who use medical jargon to show off their superiority. In another scene David tells of his recurring dream where he executes those who oppose him with a large (razor-sharp) hand of an enormous clock. "Perhaps you'll be next" he says to the doctor. The doctor's gentle but persuasive manner finally plants in David's mind the seed of a thought that people who have feelings may be more important than clocks which have none. Into the picture come Lisa (Brittany Murphy) a rather pretty young psychiatric patient who speaks only in rhyming words and sentences, such as "Hello...Kid-o" and "Look at me! What do you see?" David admits he is interested in her merely as a case study, but his expressive eyes and facial expressions indicate to us that that he is slowly but surely moved by her presence, her naivety and her trust. The final scene of the film suggests that though it may take some time there is genuine hope for both of them. This is a "must-see" film, both for the great acting and for its message of hope.
There have been many movies about mentally disturbed teens. Some have been quite effective such as the excellent performance by Shawn Cassidy in Like Normal People. Of course Ordinary People remains the standard. However, David and Lisa was a revelation. The performance by Lukas Haas was especially gripping - Emmy quality. It should lead to better roles for him in the future. Likewise Brittany Murphy was totally convincing with surprisingly subtle changes in her appearance during key lines. It was a joy to see Sidney Poitier in an understated but effortless performance. The photography was captivating, with occasional flashes of grainy documentary-type black and white frames. An altogether excellent production.
The second I saw the article in the Sunday paper about this film, I knew it was going to be a keeper. Unable to watch it as it was aired (and, after all, I like to tape everything anyway just in case) I saw it the following day. It's truly beautiful. I was in tears when David lets 'Lisa' hold his hand. It's touching, and just crazy enough for us 'artsy' types. *smile* Get a hold of a copy of it somehow. You've got to. Really, truly watch it. Listen to the dialogue. Watch the actor's eyes. Keep tissues handy for the end.
"David and Lisa," is one of those rare productions that remind us how good television can be. Portrayals of people with mental illnesses are always difficult. That there was room for reality and subtlety is a tribute to the creators and performers. Brittany Murphy's performance as Lisa will be on my mind for a long time. I can only hope that it will bring her more and more important roles, along with her first Emmy nomination. Thanks to Oprah for bringing this wonderful story to a new generation.
"David and Lisa" is a beautifully updated version of this love story by Theodore Isaac Rubin. It shows careful research into modern psychiatry.
The trouble with a re-make is that it will inevitably be compared with the first. In this case, that would be the superb 1962 film version. It's been nearly 40-years since I saw it, but it left a powerful, indelible impression on me. Unfortunately, this one looked like a Hallmark TV movie against the classic 60's version, which I sincerely hope that anyone who enjoyed this version will take the time to see. As much as I dearly love Sidney Poitier, none of the cast of this psychological pot boiler can hold a candle to the original, which featured the best actors from the Broadway stagenot movie actorsparticularly a superb Howard Da Silva as the doctor and Keir Dullea as David, in the role that I personally feel is his best (you may remember him as the marooned astronaut in Stanley Kubrick's classic, "2001"). Do yourself a favor and watch this one, too.
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14 as in 14% off!
pfft...clearly it's 93
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I like 75
as in 75% off what ever he is selling
54 possibly?
I'm in over my head...fortunately that's right where I like to be.