In times like these...

[bimo]

I’ve been wondering whether I should get back into some sort of (semi) regular posting mode instead of just lurking and leaving the odd occasional comment in friends’ journals.  Mostly, I’d like to have some sort of record of the various things that I watched or read during these *cough* interesting times. Also, I’d love to let people know I am still out there and enjoying their posts. So, here we go, just for starters.

Recent movies:
Better Man, Juror #2

Recent shows:
For All Mankind, SW: Skeleton Crew,  The Good Place

Recent books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriél Garcia Márquez (which I started ages ago, completely unrelated to the current Netflix adaption), and could only now bring myself to finish.

Current books (non fiction):
Post-Aufklärungsgesellschaft by German Professor of philosophy and didactics at TU Dresden, Markus Tiedemann, in which Tiedemann makes a quite convincing case for the age of enlightenment being one of humanity’s greatest achievements before setting out to argue how and why we are currently about to throw away all the humanist and secular-rationalist principles that we, as a society, have gained.

Current books (fiction):
Antichristie by Mithu Sanyal, in which a fifty-ish screenwriter of half German, half Indian descent working on an anti-imperialist, politically correct take on adapting an Agatha Christie crime novel gets transported to early 20^th century London and involved with leading revolutionary Indian nationalists of that time.