neurotic_squirrel

1. Media: I watched Point of Order, the 1963 documentary film that's just a supercut of the televised 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. It was fascinating--more engaging than I feared, and I might even want to watch it again. Provides full context for the quote "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

I'm starting on season three of Schitt's Creek and still fast-forwarding over some cringe interactions between the parents and the townspeople, but I really enjoy the interactions between all the family members, as well as pretty much everything the adult children do. I have nothing in common with the characters except in certain moments between the adult children and their parents that are Too Real.

2. Books: I finished The Return of the King and Beguiled, abandoned The Night Watchman, and am now reading Enlightened and A Memory Called Empire. I also recently started and finished Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor, published last year and set on a Welsh island in autumn 1938 with a dwindling population and no future. It is an excellent, short, enjoyable read, and the audiobook narrator has a Welsh accent. My favorite line: "And, God have mercy, never marry." I found it via a recommendation on a librarian's website here: https://jessamyn.info/booklist