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Reading, watching, looking

Interesting books, films and art that have caught my eye recently…

Recommended books:

Non-fiction

  • Adam Gopnik. Paris to the Moon (Random, 2001)
  • John Lorinc. The New City: How the Crisis in Canada’s Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation (Penguin, 2006)

Fiction

  • Victor Hugo. Les Miserables
  • everything by Laurie R. King
  • Anne Michaels. Fugitive Pieces (McClelland & Stewart, 1996)
  • Ann Patchett. Bel Canto (Harper, 2002)
  • Eden Robinson. Monkey Beach (Knopf, 2000)
  • everything by Neil Stephenson (especially The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon)

Recommended films:

  • Big Fish (2005)
  • Chaos and Desire (La turbulence des fluides) (2002)
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Paris, je t’aime (2007)

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