Watching and Reading

We went to see The Island last night. It was a pretty typical summer action flick with just a dash of a thought-provoking sci-fi twist which keeps your brain from entirely shutting down. Don't analyze the story too much though or it will start to fall apart. Still it made for a fun summer evening, watching stuff blow up and marveling at the characters' ability to survive.

Now that I've finished the latest Harry Potter, I've gone back to re-reading George R. R. Martin's series, A Song of Ice and Fire. I've just started book 2, A Clash of Kings. This series is so epic and full of intrigue that I'm coming across lots of details that I'd forgotten and subtleties that I'm sure I missed in previous readings. Yup, that's readings, plural. This is probably my third time through the first two. It has been a long wait between books in this series, but they are such good books that I'm willing to begrudgingly endure the waiting.

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