Oh thanks Ti. Glad you liked the post. Yeah we were flicking back & forth between The Shining and Halloween movies on Friday night and my are they still hair-raising! Fall movie / & reading season is usually my favorite time of year too, but I’m already falling behind. Hope the Bond flick is good if it’s Daniel Craig’s last.

The Irving book comes out today and I am once again a little behind. I hope you have fun at the cabin! I never got to see one scary movie this last week! I have them all and at the beginning of the month I told my husband we have to start watching them soon because last year we ran out of time and look what happened this year. Not a one. It’s just hard because The Girl goes to bed later now and she cannot stand these types of movies. She just gets too scared even with it on in the background. Makes it impossible to watch unless we watch them around 10 and please, that won’t happen with my 4 am wake-up.

Hi Darlene: Yeah I wasn’t sure what to expect with The Dinner going in, but it did get pretty crazy and dark. I’ll see what I can do about John Irving! Good you are back!

Thanks JoAnn. Glad you liked The Dinner. Pretty dark eh? I think if I like The Mare, I’ll probably go back and read Veronica as that received quite a bit of recognition when it came out.

Sounds good Kristen. I’ll be eager to hear if the Allende book is any good. We’ll see about Gaitskill’s novel.

Thanks Laurel, yeah we will have to compare notes on the Cate Blanchett movies, once we see them. We’re enjoying the cabin. Have a good week!

Ha, Brian, I didn’t know that about Les Miz. I haven’t read that Tome yet. I agree that digressions in books can either work well or be bad. In The Dinner they seemed to work. You might like that novel; it’s a bit different but interesting.

Thanks Carmen, appreciate your comments about everything. You’d probably be the perfect person for the Twain & Stanley book as you seem to now Twain so well. I read the Mockingjay book but not sure if I will see the movie.

Thanks Judy. Yeah I’m interested in checking out The Mare. I have not read Gaitskill before.

And oh my gosh, you HAVE to go see John Irving!!
Please, post about that too!