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What I've read
Anton La Guardia: Holy Land Unholy War
The Israeli Palestinian conflict - in progress- Jonathan Safran Foer: The Unabridged Pocket Book of Lightening
More sweet sad stories about families David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Witty stories of family life. Simple but cleverArthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
Exquisite story. Can't believe its written by a manLinh Dinh: Night, Again
Enlightening contemporary short stories from VietnamSteve Jones: Y: The Descent of Men
An evaluation of the biology of maleness - hard going, too much sitting on the fence and talk about sperm and circumcisionGraham Greene: The Quiet American
A journalist in 1950s Vietnam. Very atmospheric and intriguing.Daniel Goleman: Emotional Intelligence
A summary of our emotional and rational parts of the brain. Very interesting if you can get beyond the neuroscience lingo.Rose Tremain: The Colour
Beautifully written story of the Gold Rush in New Zealand - really enjoyed thisElliot Perlman: Seven Types of Ambiguity
A story of psychiatry and literature written from seven perspectives - very exciting
What I've watched
- The Constant Gardener (Mereilles)
Beautiful and thrilling account of corruption in government and pharmaceutical companies in Kenya from City of God director. Loved it. - The Beach (Danny Boyle)
I had to watch it. I was there. But it was worse than I remembered. - Must Love Dogs
John Cusack you should know better - The Wedding Crashers
Mindless and mildly amusing... the perfect plane movie - Little Fish (Rowan Woods)
Film about trying to escape the past. Heroin addiction, lost hope, deception, death. A real barrel of laughs. - Stealth (Cohen)
Yes, Ernest is in it. But don't blink. Its not as bad as the critics say.... - Sin City (Rodriguez)
Beautiful looking, horrifically graphic comic book movie - don't watch it on a plane like I did. - Mr and Mrs Smith
On the plane - terrible, terrible, terrible, don't watch it. - The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan)
What happens after the fact - tragic and tortured, but a good watch. - Dutch Masters Exhibition at NGV
Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals et al. Stunning display of dutch artists - mind blowing technique.
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