Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Interruption VI

If I've seen you in the past few weeks, chances are that I've talked your ear off about Friday Night Lights, the final season of which I just finished up tonight. Now, I don't know the first thing about football, and yes, I think it's easy to assume that FNL is just another hour-long evening soap opera. But honestly, I think this is just about as good as television gets: warmly written, wonderfully human, and full of moments of quiet beauty. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Monday, August 06, 2012

Interruption V

This morning I finished Ann Patchett's Bel Canto:

"She came to him and he pressed his damp face into the fall of lemon-scented hair. He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person. Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and spent the rest of their lives remembering."