{"id":10688,"date":"2013-07-27T23:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10688"},"modified":"2013-07-27T23:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T03:27:57","slug":"saturday-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10688","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pretty ordinary day, really. I finished reading The Last Kashmiri Rose<\/i> by Barbara Cleverly, but despite a promising start and some nice detail, I can’t claim to have quite enjoyed the book. Characters act in ways that aren’t always believable — for the time period of the British Raj, but also just for human beings — and the ending solves the mystery in what’s maybe the least interesting of the most predictable ways. Though maybe we’re at a point in mystery novels at which not<\/i> confounding your expectations itself counts as a twist? Either way, I found the book ultimately a disappointment.<\/p>\n

Moving on the Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World<\/i>, just for a complete change of pace.<\/p>\n

I also finished watching Fringe<\/i>, finally. I’ve had the fifth season saved up since it first aired this fall, and I’ve been watching an episode (occasionally two) every evening this week. It’s not a perfect ending, for a show that was never perfect — started out as pretty lousy, actually, before figuring out how to frequently be terrific — but a satisfying one all the same.<\/p>\n

I wish I could say the same for Insidious<\/a>, which I watched last night. It was a lot<\/i> less scary than I expected, and doesn’t have a whole lot going for it beyond scares.<\/p>\n

Finally, this evening I had dinner out with my parents. I had frog legs for the first time — also unimpressive, but maybe more from the way they were prepared — and a decent if unremarkable duck confit. Then my parents went off to see Mary Chapin Carpenter and Marc Cohn in concert and I came home (to watch Fringe<\/i> and walk the dog). My mom’s a long-time fan of Carpenter, and I bought her tickets this past Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n

And that was Saturday, with a little bit of Friday tossed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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