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mlhall.com: I Miss the Clarity

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Saturday, April 28, 2007. I Miss the Clarity. In a memorable scene in one of my favorite movies, Three Days of the Condor. To which Houseman replies, in his best Houseman delivery in the movie: "No, I miss that kind of clarity.". Finally, I wonder, was there ever actually all that much clarity? Has the atmosphere become so much more polluted or has our vision just grown weaker with time? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The play's the thing . . . Life as Fiction: Drawing Myself for Others. When I saw ...

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mlhall.com: Summer Reading

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Sunday, August 16, 2015. So what have I been reading this summer? No beach reading this year. At the moment I'm halfway through "The Iceman Cometh," which is our Men's Book Club selection for August. Don't ask me why, I'm not sure, but I am remembering what it is I find so tedious about Eugene O'Neill. Prior to that, after a final burst of Anne Tyler and finishing Alan Furst's Night Soldiers. And Mission to Paris. I picked up Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories. 1935) and Goodbye to Berlin. Im a f...

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mlhall.com: Life as Fiction: Drawing Myself for Others

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Thursday, October 29, 2009. Life as Fiction: Drawing Myself for Others. Which has been reprinted and is now freely available in Google Books! I'm thinking now of the approach taken by J.M. Coetzee, whose recent works are what he seems to consider autobiographical fictions, or fictionalized memoirs: his trilogy "Scenes from a Provincial Life," includes Boyhood. And (most recently) Summertime. Written or pulled together from fragments and interviews after his fictionalized self has died. With the exception...

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mlhall.com: Remembering City Life

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Yes, a few years ago I was given the choice to stay in FTW or move north in a decidedly more rural area (i.e. not a grocery store in sight! I chose to stay in suburbia. Our most recent move has brought us even closer to the downtown area and, if money were no object and we didnt need a garage (for all those tools! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The play's the thing . . . I read another one of those opinion pieces this morning (why do I bother? I Miss the Clarity. I was up on ...

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mlhall.com: October 2014

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Friday, October 24, 2014. First Chatterton and then Ready Player One. When I finished reading Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I looked around for something different and came across, with J's help, Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton. 1987) I had been meaning to read something by him for a while, and may actually read his English Music. 1992) later this year. In any case, Chatterton. One other bonus of reading Ready Player One. I rediscovered Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man.

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mlhall.com: January 2015

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Friday, January 23, 2015. We Have All Been Here Before. Actually I don't endorse Huxley's book any more than others that attempt similar feats of syncretism: Frazer's The Golden Bough. Eliade's Myth of the Eternal Return. Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Links to this post. Monday, January 12, 2015. The Inevitability of History. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,. Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? Will the coming age be liberal, capitalist, or democratic? Links to this post.

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mlhall.com: 2015: Mid-Year Reading Report

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Monday, June 29, 2015. 2015: Mid-Year Reading Report. Hard to believe half the year is already gone, but my reading has certainly kept pace. So far I've read twenty books, only a few of which have been for my Men's Book Club. By far the greatest number have been the Anne Tyler novels, which account for exactly half. I enjoyed my immersion in Anne Tyler's world, but I must confess the last two, The Amateur Marriage. 2004) and The Beginner's Goodbye. When our Men's Book Club selected Zoo Station. Some of t...

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mlhall.com: May 2015

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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Being Mortal, Then More Anne Tyler. My next selection for my Men's Book Club is Atul Gawande's Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Well, I'm hoping for the best and trying not to concentrate too much on the worst, while being somewhat mindful that some rough beast is coming down the road headed in my direction. 1982), the one just before Accidental Tourist. 1985) and Breathing Lessons. 1986), which I'd already read. Then I read Saint Maybe. I tend to feel that my f...

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mlhall.com: February 2015

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Monday, February 16, 2015. Eventually, I just had to admit I wasn't interested. Then after finishing Chris DeRose's The Presidents' War. I turned to some rather lighter fare: Roger Moore's latest memoir, Last Man Standing. Which was one of my wife's ARCs and great fun; Stefan Zweig's little novella, Chess. Something I'd been meaning to read for a while; and Anne Tyler's Noah's Compass. I enjoyed Anne Tyler's novel so much I've picked up another, Breathing Lessons. Have made me want to read more of her bo...