What are you reading this week of August 7, 2016?

[hermetic]

Finally reading The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman. It's quite intriguing but I do have to remind myself at times that it was written 30 years ago. I start thinking, "Why didn't they just...? Oh, yeah, we didn't really have all those things back then." Still, a very good read and mystery.

Last week, as I was finishing The Last Policeman trilogy book, World of Trouble, I had this odd realization that it was an allegory of what has been happening at DU. Like, we were confronted with the possibility that our world is going to end and people just began going madly off in different directions. Then I came upon this statement that seemed to sum it all up:

"The truth is, at a certain point it was like a game. How preposterous can we make the whole thing? How unlikely a scenario, how self-evidently unbelievable, and see if these people would still believe it. Turns out: pretty much all the way. People will believe pretty much any goddamn thing if they want to bad enough."

Words of wisdom, Mr. Winters. SMH

For my audible book this week I am listening to Shadowfires by Dean Koontz. Good and creepy. It is starting to veer away from the original idea, though, and I'm starting to lose interest. I find this true of stories by Koontz: sometimes a hit, sometimes a miss.

Keeping in Koontz mode I also got the DVD Odd Thomas. Don't know how I missed this one before. It is LOL funny in spots and so intense in others. And I cried like a baby at the end, for various reasons. Watching it I kept thinking there was something so familiar about that mall. So I looked it up on IMDB and discovered it was Winrock Center in Albuquerque! I have been there many times, long ago. Pretty cool, on 16 degrees of separation level.

Another DVD I just watched is the terrific Hunt for Red October, based on a Tom Clancy novel. I saw this movie many years ago but it was at a drive-in theater so I was too busy having fun to pay much attention to it then. Thanks for the memory jolt, #9.

So, what are you relating to on a personal level this week? Or not?