Big birds and bigger books
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… for those in retail, at least. I’ve shown great restraint in mall crawling, but other members of the family have been lost for hours. When someone comes home exhausted from the jostling and stress, I’m glad to be an onliner.
You know online, right? Pick your purchase, wait for the truck to arrive, profit. Still, some things do require bundling up and heading across the way. Today, my annual bird hunt. OK, I do this more than once a year, but this is the season where appearances count. Again, showing great restraint, I ignored the 12.5 kg turkey (stabbed throughout with simili-butter). The $79.38 tag hanging from its privates might have influenced my decision; how much turkey does any one family REALLY need?
I’m clicking my way through a new ebook: part 2 of the Millennium trilogy. The whole title is “The girl who played with fire“. I find Book Two succinct enough. I’m under some pressure to get the brick, er virtual brick, finished before the movie opens in a few days. For appearances…
In fact, it’s as good a read as Book One, which means that Stieg Larsson may have scored a “home run” with the trilogy, even if it happened after such things being beyond his ken.
I’ve missed watching most of the big multi-volume movies from opening credits to black screen, out of respect for the print versions. Even if I haven’t read them yet. Potter: check. Tolkien: check. The Star Wars guy: check. Agreed, the SW series isn’t exactly based on real books, but why quibble. The point is that books should be read before watching the movie, and that holds for The Bible.
