Category Archives: Book and film reviews

Went to Reina Sofia museum today in Madrid and two degrees later … from Zulueta to Los Planetas to here… https://youtu.be/72pAMC8QORI?si=m7308kxUfsCJEtJn

A gorgeous morning.

A Cantinflas movie on the tv in our Airbnb in Madrid. I’m twelve years old again.

The paintings by Goya, Velasquez, Fortuny, and El Greco are amazing in the nearby Prado but you can’t take photos in the museum and really what can I add about Las Meninas, just a spectacularly amazing painting? The bonsai are … Continue reading →

Will write more about our very smooth travel later, but for now just want to say that it’s nice to be in Madrid!

I will be traveling in Spain for the next couple of weeks riding bicycles in the Galicia area. Very much looking forward to this break. We will be in the towns of Lugo, Orense, Pontevedra. will try to post pictures … Continue reading →

La casa verde, Mario Vargas LlosaWhat we can know: A novel, Ian McEwanI, Claudius, Robert GravesLa Hojarasca, Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Dream Hotel, Leila LalamiSplendeurs et misères des courtisanes, Honoré de BalzacNives by Sacha NaspiniCatastrophe, Richard PosnerEl Amor en los tiempos … Continue reading →

Álvaro Enrigue, Tu sueño imperios han sidoCristina Rivera Garza, Autobiografía del algodón Christopher Priest, The Prestige Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

Charles Burns, Final Cut. Appreciate it. Leaves you with fleeting emotion. Cinema and meta pretty nice. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Things really do go rather badly for Okonkwo. Javier Marias, Todas las Almas. Gave up 1/2 way through. Just … Continue reading →

For some reason in leading up to the start of teaching classes in Sept. I did a lot of skim-reading in the last two months rather than complete book. But worthwhile a usual to keep track. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains … Continue reading →