Just One

You guys, I watched '12 Angry Men' last night. It was SO GOOD. It appealed to the parts of me that drive you all the most crazy-- I really identified with Henry Fonda. Everyone is all, "OK this seems pretty straightforward," and he's like "But let me just harp on 10 million details really quick,' and everyone is like "Why can you not just let anything go dude??" It pays to be nitpicky sometimes people, that is all I am saying.

ANYWAY. What is probably best about this movie, and what creates a lot of its tension, is that it all takes place in one room. I was trying to think of other movies (or books, or plays) that take place in one room, or one space. Beckett came to mind. But I am sure there are others, more pop-cultury things, that I am not thinking of. Anyone?

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abandoned love

reading recommendations for fast readers with long attention spans

Dear friends,

I really love to read books that other people have read, but you might not know that my partner reads a lot of non-fiction books that require fairly careful reading if you really want to get into the subject matter. I'm not really that kind of reader. I read really really fast (because I skim anything that starts to bore me), and I like the story to move along (this is why I skim), but I also like the story to last forever. I like to get really invested in the story.

Obviously, this is why I love the Twilight saga. So skimmable, so compelling, so long.

I also got pretty into Harry Potter and The Golden Compass, but those books didn't have the same sexual tension thing going for them. Annnnnd, maybe that's the real reason I love Twilight.

But I also loved reading The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, because of the over-arching narrative of an entire generation of one family, from all of their perspectives. The plot was full of suspense and pain and yearning - and, ok, not that much sex. But it lasted forever, and when the end came it was really the END, and that was so satisfying.

Do you also like to read long books or series? Do you have any recommendations for me? (Vampires would be a huge plus)

And what kind of reading really does it for you? Do you love short fiction, or graphic novels, or sonnet sequences? Give us some really good examples!

yours in frenzied reading,
Emily L