This and That

Yesterday the  New York Times had an article about a book titled 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Curious I googled and found the list here. I skimmed through the list and found I've read about 50 and half of those I had to read for school. Surprisingly it listed books like Sir Henry Rider Haggard's She and Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes but didn't list Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji which I believe is possibly the world's first novel. I have no intention of trying to complete the list - life is too short and I have my own little list of books that I would like to read before I die and they are not on that list. See how many of the 1,001 books you've read.

Wednesday night I watched the season finale of "Criminal Minds". The team was in New York City only it wasn't New York City but somewhere in LA. It's always aggravating to a native New Yorker when shows like "Murder She Wrote" and "Cagney and Lacey", purportedly set here, are filmed in LA. The production designers try their best but it really doesn't work :(

For your delectation: if you would like to read a fantastical piece of writing go read The Golem Girl by ursulav. Keep your eyes open for her books - she's on her way to becoming a major writer and you can all say you knew her way back when.