Postings are very sporadic, I know.
It seems to me that maybe the best I can do is write about what books, magazines and articles I'm reading, films I see, whee I'm going, what I'm doing.
Not that anybody ever has noticed this blog :-)
BOOKS: Currently, I'm reading a recent biographical study of the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It's a very personal and interesting book, by Patrick Wilcken. I heard him talking about it on BBC Radio 4 about a year ago, maybe less, and have wanted to buy it ever since. I couldn't afford it, but used an Amazon voucher from my 60th birthday recently, and got it.
Prior to the Lévi-Strauss, I was reading another biographical book on an anthropologist, "Margaret Mead: an American Icon". It is also one I coveted, and my partner Heather bought me it for my birthday. Fascinating study shows how media savvy Mead was, getting press coverage and media exposure in a way no other social anthropologist managed.
FILM: I've seen the Cohn Brothers remake of "True Grit" twice in about 4 day. I liked it a lot, but Heather barely at all, and two friends we met at the cinema in Bradford hated it. Taste can be so personal.
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