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After supper my father says, "Want to go down and see if the Lake's still there?" Selected Stories by Alice Munro

Perhaps they assume you read the previous books, it's an easy way to deliver fanservice and maybe poor writing or a lazy way to develop the character. It can also be an important information for the current plot, and dialogues or reflections are how an author can deliver it to the reader. Related to it, some authors reveal what'll happen ahead in the same novel in order to make us focus on other plot points, or to add suspense. My pet peeve is when they spoil books written by other authors.

I'm reading a second book, Selected Stories by Alice Munro. Enjoying it so far.

I'm returning home tomorrow, due to circumstances I didn't know beforehand. I like it here, but this kind of thing doesn't concern me as it did before. The restlessness doesn't end, though.

It snowed a bit just now. Third time I've seen snow in my life, but it doesn't hold up to the first two.

I watched Polytechnique, directed by Denis Villeneuve. It was difficult to endure, but that was its purpose.

Welcome to the forum, Herb57. Beware that Hitchcock's involvement in literature was purely lending his name to some collections of short stories, written by other authors. I read two of them some years ago, but I can't remember which. The Waxwork was written by A.M. Burrage.

There's a film I watched as a kid but to this day I haven't been able to find it again. It's about a high school boy who meets a school girl working in a restaurant. I believe she tells him she likes the comic book he was reading, I'm not sure. Then there are aliens and ovnis. It's from the 80s, I think.

I like certain Bowie songs because the lyrics favour specific feelings related to alienation in a light manner. The songs are also smooth and tender, which makes them a comfort when I'm feeling low.

I liked him, RIP.

I watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg. I liked it, another good science fiction film.

I watched E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Steven Spielberg. I haven't seen it since my childhood, so there are things I perceived differently back then, such as thinking the government men were bad people making their utmost to harm the family. I didn't like the school part, it doesn't fit with the rest of the film. I think the team itself takes a jab at it when Elliot asks how does one explain school to a higher intelligence. It's a solid science fiction film, I enjoyed it.

I came across an interesting article written by Lisa Zyga (Why too much evidence can be a bad thing, phys.org). The idea is that unanimity of opinion or interpretation about something is often misleading, and she demonstrates it with practical examples. I'm sharing it because I'd like to know what you think of it.

I watched The Animatrix, it's nine shorts about the Matrix made by different people. I liked it, each short has its own story and animation style; recommended to those who liked The Matrix.

I finished the two games I have for the 3DS. Shovel Knight, developed by Yacht Club Games, is a very good 2D indie platformer. It took me fourteen hours to play the main story, but as I am a bit noob it should have taken me less time. I still didn't play the bonus add-on, it has a different character with different weapons and powers. The big game was Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, developed by Monolith Soft for the Wii and ported to the 3DS by Monster Games. It has been a while since I had a big RPG and this single one was finished in ninety hours, ignoring side quests and just following the main story (granted, I grinded for about five hours before a difficult boss near the end).

I finished reading My Struggle: A Death in the Family, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, a few days ago. It's an autofiction novel, which means a fictionalized autobiography; it's the first book of a series encompassing six works in total. In this particular book, the author writes about his personal life from his childhood days until some years into adulthood. Common themes are the distant relationship with his parents, and some events and dilemmas through teenage years into adult life. I won't enter into specifics about the content, because I think it's disrespectful towards certain people and it isn't my place to comment on their private life. The protagonist/author flies through a scenic yet ordinary life in a fashionable manner, but he doesn't shy from remembering small unfashionable tidbits from others. I don't know if he received permission from these people to publish these personal stories, but I know his books caused an uproar and the press searched for the people mentioned in them. I also think he didn't disguise most of the names mentioned, so they can be recognised not only by those who lived in the same circle of acquaintances as the author, but also by people they meet nowadays. Another issue with the book is that its genre, the fictionalized autobiography, gives the author freedom to change certain parts of the story as he wishes, so he has a sort of artistic licence to write whatever he wants without denoting it as fact or fiction. As to the book itself, it's competent in some parts, but mostly boring and overtly descriptive; it also has some self-reflective content that I liked when I read a bit in the bookshop, but in overall it isn't that interesting.

I didn't consider the lists. I haven't read series in the last years except for some manga, so I don't think in that perspective when researching an author.

I watched Eyes Without a Face, directed by Georges Franju. It's about a doctor whose daughter lost her face in an accident, so he and his nurse search through parisien students in order to find a proper replacement. It's a very disconcerting horror film.

Fantastic Fiction didn't pass the test of finding old obscure authors, something both Goodreads and Wikipedia do.

Welcome to the forum, bookbug3. Why did you choose Folklore as a minor?

For context, in the Netherlands there's a poor custom of people releasing their own fireworks on new year's eve, I don't know if it's legal. Yesterday they were released all day long. I think the fireworks are inconsiderate for a place with so many animals. Usually I see a lot of people walking their dogs, but yesterday I only saw two persons walking them and the dogs were uncomfortable.

I rewatched Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller. In the first viewing I didn't notice how retro it is, in both cinematography and sound effects. It would look cool if they decided to release it in black and white; but I think it looks better this way, the colours are part of the experience.

I read this book a few years ago, but I wasn't enjoying it and stopped somewhere in the middle. I thought the book was void of substance, and so I looked for other people's opinions. In a forum, i was answered that the purpose of the book is to feel empathy towards a paedophile, but I don't think it justifies a book's appeal.

I watched The Magnificent Ambersons, directed by Orson Welles. I don't know if it's because I knew beforehand that it was hugely edited against the director's will, but the film seemed unfinished, incoherent and stitched together. In minutes characters changed dramatically, and the heavy expositions didn't appear to scope everything that had happened or could happen. Edit: I also watched A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch. I liked it.