This is reposted from my old blog. I’ve imported the whole post, comments and all, into a single space here. I’ve listed it here under its original date.
Hit (or Miss) List, August ’09
It’s been a rather slow month for reading, especially because of the huge volume, Infinite Jest, taking up most of my time. (I actually only finished it today, but am listing it with the August post because that’s when the bulk of the reading was done.) Here’s what I’ve been reading and watching for the past month:
Hit List
- •Grosse Pointe Blank (movie)
- •Say Anything (movie)
an old favorite (yeah, I know….); and yes, it was something of a John Cusack phase, with these two titles in there
- •Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
I’ll have more to say about this one down the road, I think
- •The Crab Flower Club (onstage)
a nicely put together, ironic piece about the women in a Chinese family who decide to start a poetry club
- •The Reduced Shakespeare: the Complete Works (onstage)
absolutely hilarious performance; if you get a chance to see it, you’ll definitely want to catch it!
- •What Day is Today (onstage)
extremely disturbing, and very compelling; the narrative structure was very innovative, and the whole performance was very nicely done
- •The 2009 Rhysling Anthology (Drew Morse, ed.)
- •various issues of these journals:
Star*Line and Dreams & Nightmares
Miss List
No misses!
Neither Hit nor Miss
- •The Crucible (onstage)
not a good performance overall, but there were a few bright spots that redeemed it from being a miss — & of course the script is amazing
So, what have you been reading and watching this summer?
Shelly Bryant 
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