diff --git a/hugo/content/films/index.md b/hugo/content/films/index.md index 0bf4aed..1f80dba 100644 --- a/hugo/content/films/index.md +++ b/hugo/content/films/index.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ layout: page This page holds a list of films I have watched, spoiler-free, starting from 9th January 2015. +* [Argylle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15009428/): Sadly disappointing. This film was at least twice as long as it should have been. A good version would have been a short funny pastiche; what we actually got was a long boring film punctuated by moments of glorious whimsy. + * [A Haunting in Venice](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22687790/): Well, I really enjoyed this, and I think I was surrounded by heathens in the cinema. I successfully called precisely none of the plot, and it all tied up so neatly. Ariadne Oliver will always be Zoƫ Wanamaker to me, but I believed Kenneth Branagh. Top-tier Poirot. * [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)): Brilliant. It was a little too long, but I couldn't pick out anything to take away. Great acting, great filming, a bit harrowing. diff --git a/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md b/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md index 727d8e5..69febd2 100755 --- a/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md +++ b/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ This page holds a list of the books I am reading, and a list of books I have rea * The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu * American Gods, by Neil Gaiman +* 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff +* Impro, by Keith Johnstone # To read @@ -67,9 +69,7 @@ This page holds a list of the books I am reading, and a list of books I have rea * The Culture series, by Iain M Banks * A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel * So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport -* 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff * Black Box Thinking, by Matthew Syed -* Impro, by Keith Johnstone # Read some of and then put down @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ This page holds a list of the books I am reading, and a list of books I have rea # Have read +* Permutation City, by Greg Egan. Cool book! It's interesting to think about why I find the core premise implausible, but it certainly seemed novel to me. Pretty gripping. It seems to pair quite nicely with Robin Hanson's _The Age of Em_, which would be a nonfiction accompaniment. * Building Secure and Reliable Systems, by the Google SRE team. This is genuinely a textbook, so it's quite slow going. A lot of this is *very* Google-centric, where it's assumed that everything is a microservice and any given query to a service will require hundreds of RPC calls. However, the general lessons seem to be valuable. * A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh. Good Lord this is bleak. The kind of book which would definitely reward rereading; I feel like I got about a quarter of what was going on, there was so much subtext. Oddly a fun read, though! * The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Short, sweet, and tragic. Simple throwaway lines become retrospectively rich in meaning as you read on. Spoiler in rot13: gur haeryvnoyr aneengbe tvirf guvf fgenatr frafr bs grafvba guebhtubhg.