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Just had the most enormous trouble logging on thought I'd lost my blog.Happily remained calm and sorted it.
en route to HK I saw three good films.'P.S. I love You' which was very touching, 'The Golden COmpass', which I found disappointing. It is based on Pullman's book and when the philosophy isn't there the heart seems to not be there either. Lastly I watched 'Brick Lane'. This is about a young ,possibly only 12 year old Bangadeshi girl ,who is sent to England to marry a much older man. I never before appreciated how hard this must be. Eventually her much older husband goes back but she stays because her daughters want to.Do go see or get DVD.
Whilst in HK I went to see 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day',which I loved it is what I call 'an old fashioned film' and I did enjoy it except when the air raid warning sign went off because I always have bad dreams and so I did. i was less than a year old and knew the difference in the warnings.no wonder my generation and slightly older have nervous problems. There was no councelling in those days. we all got on with it.Coming back I also watched 3 films one of which I can't remember. Isaw a really fun exciting film about treasure under Mount Rushmore called 'National Treasures'. This really made the flight go fast.Prior to that I saw 'Atonement'. Now , largely because of teaching 'Enduring Love' too mant times for A level. I've 'gone off' Mc Ewen but now I must read read this book. The film was brilliant but quite puzzling at the end and very sad.It was not all uncultured I saw Traviata too and on the way listened to all of Beethoven's piano sonatas.When I blog tomorrow I'll blog some more about the books I've read in HK and where we are now. Thanks to some lovely people at varuious publisheras I have a host of non-fictiopn to read because those are the books I want to concentrate on in my blog. There are many lovely blogs about fiction but few or none that I've found about non-fiction.I have a wonderful book called 'Triumph' by Mary Beard, which I bought before this financial crisis rendered book buying a choice between heat and food.I would still eat beans to get a book I want and go cold. I could just be mad.Opinions welcomed.