New and old titles read in the past month plus television shows and movies worth watching.

Recent Reads in Fiction

• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3608317

Inspired by the book publishing connection, I decided reading the next book from my backlog list

• Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb4042653

• The Other Black Girl: a novel by Zakiya Dalila 

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3982315

Recent Reads Non-Fiction

• Suspicious Minds  Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories by Rob Brotherton

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3279943

In the wake of a previous book that had me question my objection to Marx, but I did not want to re-read Marx so opted to re-reading more Foucault. But cheated by reading about Foucault’s ideas rather than reading Foucault himself; that came later.

• Foucault for Beginners 

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1560134

• Foucault: a Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2492742

• The Foucault Reader ed. by Paul Rabinow

the 1984 edition but I wanted to read the 1997 edition, the difference being . . . I do not know because I did not find a copy of the 1997 edition

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1697605

Recent Re-reads

• Ian Fleming James Bond books, in no particular order

- Moonraker

- Doctor No

- Diamonds Are Forever

- Thunderball

 Missing PAXEast, I re-read this geek-themed romance novel.

• Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert

https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3916613

• After reading and watching the TV series Magpie Murders, I decided  revisiting a couple Agatha Christie titles, one of which before going in onto the latest cinematic adaptation 

- Death[s] on the Nile

- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

For Television and Movies

• “Magpie Murders” — great stuff especially for those who are fans of Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie mysteries

• “Reset” — a 2021 Chinese sci-fi series involving time looping bus riders trying to stop their bus from exploding

• Big Brother Canada season 10 is approaching the final

• “The Batman” 

This is the Batman Christopher Nolan tried and wanted to do, gritty realism, downplaying the costuming villians, done much better and better story arc within a single movie.

Music not bad Direction, who was the director? To me, he was great, again better than Nolan. The Batman/Bruce Wayne himself, ... well, anyone was better than a masking muting, lisping Brit playing an American superhero, but this guy was good.

Actions and cinematography was good.

The aesthetic is different; I repeat, out Nolan's gritty realism that Nolan strived at doing but failed.

I give 8½ out of 10.

“Death on the Nile” 2022 version — good; I thought Gal Gadot as Linnet was perfect — a chef’s kiss casting choice

I re-watched some old and recent favorites

• “The Pink Panther Strikes Back”

• “Johnny English: Reborn”

• “After the Fox”