More Great Books AND Movies I Recommend!
Saw two great French movies this weekend with subtitles, loved them both. The Valet is about a very wealthy married man who is featured on the front page of the newspaper with his super-model mistress. The picture also includes a valet who works for alocal restaurant. Since the businessman cannot afford a divorce, he tells his wife that the supermodel is with the valet. The fun starts when she does not believe him and he has to make arrangements for the supermodel and the valet to pretend they are in a relationship. Just fun!
The other movie is called The Closet, also French with subtitles. In this film a boring plain accountant loses his job. His neighbor convinces him to tell everyone he is gay in order to get his job back. He reluctantly agrees to do this and gets his job back. His relationships with almost everyone change, and the movie is hilarious. I won't spoil the end; worth seeing!
now for some amazing books....
I just discovered a new author - Tess Gerritson. Her books are the basis of the television series Rizzoli and Isles, which I enjoy sometimes! Anyway, I found one of her books at the used bookstore in Port Clinton and loved it so now I am going to read them all.
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson will blow your mind. I read this book in one day. It's about a woman with amnesia who is beginning to get her memory back after 20 years of being completely disconnected. Her problem is figuring out who to trust. I did not figure it out until the very end - riveting and suspenseful.
Nelson DeMille writes great stories - I don't think he's one of today's literary geniuses but the stories are entertaining. By The Rivers of Babylon is set in the Middle East and involves hijacked planes, religious wars and love stories all intertwined. Great fun laying-on-the-beach read. I also read Plum Island by Nelson DeMille - another long saga/mystery. I'm DeMilled out for a while now.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning by Michael Lewis is about the Oakland A's, who have defied all the convention wisdom about what it takes to build a winning team. It turns out the conventional wisdom is wrong in baeball just like it is in medicine.
Speaking of conventional wisdom being wrong, I also read Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt. Great book and what we think we know about economics is wrong too. I think it pays to be skeptical in today's world....
That's all for now - these are the top picks for this weekend; I'm traveling so much and planes and airports and hotel rooms are great places to catch up on reading.
Saw two great French movies this weekend with subtitles, loved them both. The Valet is about a very wealthy married man who is featured on the front page of the newspaper with his super-model mistress. The picture also includes a valet who works for alocal restaurant. Since the businessman cannot afford a divorce, he tells his wife that the supermodel is with the valet. The fun starts when she does not believe him and he has to make arrangements for the supermodel and the valet to pretend they are in a relationship. Just fun!
The other movie is called The Closet, also French with subtitles. In this film a boring plain accountant loses his job. His neighbor convinces him to tell everyone he is gay in order to get his job back. He reluctantly agrees to do this and gets his job back. His relationships with almost everyone change, and the movie is hilarious. I won't spoil the end; worth seeing!
now for some amazing books....
I just discovered a new author - Tess Gerritson. Her books are the basis of the television series Rizzoli and Isles, which I enjoy sometimes! Anyway, I found one of her books at the used bookstore in Port Clinton and loved it so now I am going to read them all.
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson will blow your mind. I read this book in one day. It's about a woman with amnesia who is beginning to get her memory back after 20 years of being completely disconnected. Her problem is figuring out who to trust. I did not figure it out until the very end - riveting and suspenseful.
Nelson DeMille writes great stories - I don't think he's one of today's literary geniuses but the stories are entertaining. By The Rivers of Babylon is set in the Middle East and involves hijacked planes, religious wars and love stories all intertwined. Great fun laying-on-the-beach read. I also read Plum Island by Nelson DeMille - another long saga/mystery. I'm DeMilled out for a while now.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning by Michael Lewis is about the Oakland A's, who have defied all the convention wisdom about what it takes to build a winning team. It turns out the conventional wisdom is wrong in baeball just like it is in medicine.
Speaking of conventional wisdom being wrong, I also read Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt. Great book and what we think we know about economics is wrong too. I think it pays to be skeptical in today's world....
That's all for now - these are the top picks for this weekend; I'm traveling so much and planes and airports and hotel rooms are great places to catch up on reading.
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