Book: Inkheart

meritahut recommended this to me a while back and I'm very glad to have finally read it. It's a very thinky book that absolutely oozes love of the written word like nothing I've read since Parnassus on Wheels, plus it has a very philosophically interesting premise and characters I could connect with. ( possibly slightly spoilery comments )

Movies: A Model Employee, Lawless Heart

We get a free movie from Jaman nearly every week, and we watched a couple of them fairly close together. I was pretty sure I knew which of the two we'd like better. One was a French suspense film involving computer-company espionage, supposed to be like a Hitchcock thriller; the other was a drama about people gathering for a funeral. Give me a thriller over a soap opera any day, right? Boy, was I wrong!

( cut for length, not spoilers )