I started this particular blog almost two years ago when I wanted to post a lot of theatre-going notes at once, thinking then that I might or might not keep it up for notes on plays I read or saw. "Might not" has prevailed for a number of good reasons. But now I'm thinking it would be a handy place to keep a simple list of what I read or see from here on out. I may or may not write more, but at least, like my smart husband, I will have one place to track the plays, movies, books, other, that I read and see.

Today is the first of 2010. Today I finished watching The Jane Austen Book Club (which I liked enormously more than the book), and took Nathan and Cassidy to the Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel this morning (which gave me a headache). (But the Percy Jackson trailer gave me goosebumps and made me cry a little.) I am in the middle of a Nero Wolfe book (as usual).

I am also alternating between two books on CD in the car: Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (which everyone but me seems to find fascinating) and Ken Robinson's The Elment (fun and interesting and frustrating so far in that (the frustrating part) it's a lot about the current bollocks of our approach to education).