library

finished:

* the castle in the attic (elizabeth winthrop): decent kids book, entertaining, light moral: you have everything you need to succeed inside of yourself. moral is lightly touched upon, without being shoved down your throat. good enough first book i'll keep an eye out for the sequel (the battle for the castle).
* the miserable mill, book the fourth (lemony snickett): what can i say? same 3 orphans, same villain, same bad luck, slight plot adjustment. entertaining, but becoming tedious to slog through as i am reading the entire series without the year long publication break that would have been the norm. still amusing enough to move on to book the fifth.

additional current reading material:

* pattern recognition (william gibson)
* the austere academy, book the fifth (lemony snickett): only 7 more to go, with additional book the thirteenth being an unreleased but final book.

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"there was not an ounce of life in her face - it was just a plaster cast of desperation, the heavy-lidded eyes half-closed, the mouth drawn down, it's lips with blood on them."
- timothy findley, the piano man's daughter

"our battle, our struggle is to create art. our weapon is the moving picture. because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede. our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal. our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize. and our music will linger and finally overwhelm because it will have a context as certain as the grave. we are scientists engaged in the creation of memory. and our memory will neither blur, nor fade."
- from shadow of the vampire, an e. elias mirkle film