Thursday, September 11, 2025

Read ... as much as possible:


My kinda party ... reading.

Recommended reading - Star Trek: Voyager: Flashback (1996):


Star Trek: Voyager: Flashback

By Diane Carey & Brannon Braga.

Published by Pocket Books.
Published 1996.
First Edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0671003836
ISBN-13: 978-0671003838

Description:

When Tuvok is haunted by recurring memories of the time he spent under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu, Captain Janeway follows him to the century-old bridge of the starship Excelsior during a desperate battle.

Recommended reading - Sleuths of the Century (2000):


Sleuths of the Century

Edited by Ed Gorman and John L. Breen.

Published in 2000.
Published by Carroll & Graf.
First Edition.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0786707097
ISBN-13: 978-0786707096

Description:

Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh - they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelist-critic Jon L. Breen present a full century of the world's favorite sleuths in tales by such classic writers as G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie as well as contemporary giants like Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. A hefty, handsome volume, Sleuths of the Century also offers serious suspense from Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D. MacDonald. Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the next century.

Ann Patchett, on reading:


Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book.
Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point.
The reader and the book have their own relationship now,
and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

- Ann Patchett.

Remembering September 11, 2001:


Honoring the victims of September 11, 2001 (9/11), their families and friends,
and the responders who risked their own lives to save others.

We will never forget.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Fabelmans (2022):


The Fabelmans

directed by Steven Spielberg,
written by Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner,
was released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 10, 2022.
Music by John Williams.


Cast:

Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Mateo Zoryan, Keeley Karsten, Alina Brace, Julia Butters, Birdie Borria, Judd Hirsch, Sophia Kopera, Jeannie Berlin, Robin Bartlett, Sam Rechner, Oakes Fegley, Chloe East, Isabelle Kusman, Chandler Lovelle, Gustavo Escobar, Nicolas Cantu, Cooper Dodson, Gabriel Bateman, Stephen Matthew Smith, James Urbaniak, Alex Quijano, Kalama Epstein, Connor Trinneer, Lane Factor, Greg Grunberg, David Lynch, Jan Hoag, Carlos Javier Castillo, Ezra Buzzington, Paul Chepikian, Brinly Marum, Mason Bumba, Mary M. Flynn, Adriel Porter, Tia Nalls, Larkin Campbell, Harper Dustin, Crystal the Monkey, Nikolai Bazan, Jared Becker, Art Bonilla, Colt Carville, Ari Davis, William Dawson, Deborah Dir, April Elize, Kendal Evans, Alejandro Fuenzalida, Samantha Rose Gomez, Andrew Goodman, Caroline Anna-Kaye Green, Taylor Hall, Sarah Hamilton, Orion Hunter, Cody Mitchell Key, Julian Lerma, Paige Locke, Marissa McBride, Cody Miller, Jonathan Moorwood, Vera Myers, Nick W. Nicholson, Molly Renze, Brandon Keith Rogers, Julyah Rose, Meg Schimelpfenig, Lucy Schmidt, Rob Shiells, Meredith VanCuyk, Trang Vo, Max David Weinberg, Nicole Alicia Xavier.

On this day in movie history - Ennio (2021):


Ennio

documentary directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore,
released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 10, 2021.
Music by Ennio Morricone.

Cast:

Ennio Morricone, Gino Paoli, Quincy Jones, Miranda Martino, Alessandro De Rosa, Gianni Morandi, Nicola Piovani, Pat Metheny, Giuliano Montaldo, Bruce Springsteen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Silvano Agosti, Roland Joffé, Dario Argento, Clint Eastwood, Lina Wertmüller, Caterina Caselli, Walter Branchi, Alessandro Alessandroni, Bruno Battisti D'Amario, Edoardo Vianello, Sergio Miceli, Goffredo Petrassi, Daniele Furlati, Boris Porena, Enrico Pieranunzi, Igor Stravinsky, Carlo Savina, Ettore Zappegno, Eva Fischer, John Cage, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gianni Meccia, Franco Migliacci, Edda Dell'Orso, Bruno Zambrini, Tonino Poce, Paul Anka, Chet Baker, Luciano Salce, Sergio Leone, Carlo Verdone, Roberto Faenza, Sergio Bassetti, Marco Bellocchio, Raffaella Leone, John Huston, Dino De Laurentiis, Gillo Pontecorvo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Enzo Ocone, Barry Levinson, Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Sollima, Mina, Marina Cicogna, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Dino Asciolla, Antonello Neri, Franco Piersanti, Elio Petri, Paul Simonon, Alberto Lattuada, Liliana Cavani, Dulce Pontes, Hans Zimmer, Stanley Kubrick, Enzo G. Castellari, Furio Colombo, Joan Baez, John Williams, Antonio Pappano, Wong Kar-Wai, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Marco Tullio Giordana, Valerio Zurlini, Terrence Malick, Mychael Danna, Andrea Leone, Claudio Mancini, Robert De Niro, David Puttnam, Herbie Hancock, Gilda Buttà, Oliver Stone, Maria Travia, Fabio Venturi, Marco Biscarini, Phil Joanou, Mike Patton, Zucchero, James Hetfield, 2Cellos, Patti Austin, Chris Botti, Tituss Burgess, Walter Chiari, Coolio, Leonardo DiCaprio, Down Low, Emma Marrone, Mireille Mathieu, Metallica, Bette Midler, Muse, Eddie Redmayne, Tim Roth, Béatrice Schönberg, Ridley Scott, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Patrick Swayze, Totò, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jonathan Tunick.