july - oct 2015

ugh... yeah, i've completely forgotten what i read months ago. but i can say that i wasn't reading terribly much since i was watching 7 seasons of "medium" on netflix! and then i was gone for three weeks and only read one book in that time and wasn't reading much before since i was prepping for my trip. plus there was BLB to prepare for. so! of what i remember from the last four months:

james h jones - alfred c kinsey: a life [still not finished]
gerd gigerenzer - gut feelings" the intelligence of the unconscious [started, finished in oct]
piers paul read - alive: sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds--the classic adventure of survival in the andes [started and finished in china]
alexandra horowitz - inside of a dog: what dogs see, smell, and know [started in september]
peter maass - love thy neighbor: a story of war [started october]


movies:
man on wire (2008), the search for general tso (2015), all 7 seasons of "medium" (sheesh!), focus (2015), the time traveler's wife (2009), far from the madding crowd (2015), terminator genisys (2015), 3rd season of "the mind of a chef", the true cost (2015), a year of champagne (2014) (i actually only watched about half. I kept falling asleep. not that it was bad or boring tho! I was just too tired to read subtitles), casting by (2012), halt and catch fire season 1


note about "alive." i finished this book on the plane coming home from china. and there was a lot of turbulence on both legs, lol. from harbin to PEK the captain actually warned us even before we took off that it was going to be a rocky trip. he didn't lie. i'm a good flyer tho, so I wasn't bothered. and i actually found it pretty amusing i was reading "alive" during it all. tho, i did have a conversation with a friend before leaving china about plane crashes and stuff, wanting to live or die. i opted to die. i mean, the situation would cause my answer to vary, but coming from china back home it's mostly wide open ocean, so i opted for death. i thought about that convo more than once on return flights, lol.

note about the movies. i watched focus, time traveler's, and far from on the plane ride to china. on the way back, a full three weeks later, i had the same stupid movies! the airplane media library had a lot of movies, probably over 40 or so, but per genre / language the selection was rather small. i watched terminator, a spanish movie, and partly watched inside out on the way home. terminator was hugely disappointing, time travelers was incredibly sad, and far from the madding crows was really good. it think it touched a nerve with me. having a partner who knows you well, and respects you, but isn't a pushover either.