Books and Movies

We all liked Wall-E. Very much. A couple of us have seen it twice.

Last night we watched Riding the Rails, which showcased ten elderly persons who as teenagers were part of the quarter million who hopped trains around our nation trying to find work, running away from home or who were sent away from home during the Great Depression.  It was incredibly interesting and we highly recommend it. What an eye-opener for our youngest.  Unfortunately, Isaac was not home to watch.  He left yesterday morning for a week’s mission trip to a city.  We hope that will be an eye-opening experience for him and that he allows God a free hand to work in him.

Isabelle and I today finished listening to Jane Eyre.

I am almost finished with Mother Theresa: Come Be My Light. What a woman!  What a lover of Jesus! What a range of comments about the book as linked!  It has been a valuable book for me to read for several reasons, which will not be discussed here.

Earlier this summer I read Warchild by Karin Lowachee and liked it enough to recommend it to Angela, who went on to read the other two books in the series, which she has adamantly said are not up to the level of the first book.  So I will skip those.  But this first book is quite good and well-written, if you like sci-fi internecine warfare, vaguely maritime military themes and a story all about trust and love which never uses those two words.

And Ellie just lent me and I raced through Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon.  The descriptions of the city of Venice,  her people, how Italians think of themselves, and family descriptions were enough to read the book.  A fairly good murder mystery, too.

I read the kids King Solomon’s Mines.  We all enjoyed that.

And one night I watched Les Choristes alone.  With English subtitles. It was likable, but the plot of an older man, a failed musician,  who through music inspires the bad boys of a reformatory (meanly run –in both senses of the word–by a martinet) seemed (to me) derived from other books and movies.  Absolutely lovely music.