Book, Book/Movie, Movie

I have been doing a lot of reading in the past couple of weeks. The latest book was Assasination Vacation by Sarah Vowell a soft history look at the first three presidential assassinations. It was a good read on the quirky NPR side like one would expect from a Sarah Vowell. It did remind me however of one great Saturday night when I watched a panel of authors on C-SPAN talk about our presidents who have been assassinated. I wrote down the titles of all there books because I found the topic immensely interesting, however I have forgotten about it. I will have to see if I can find that list of books again.

I have also recently listen to an audio version of Anthony Swofford's Jarhead. Much like other soldier accounts of the current war (Jarhead is about the first gulf war)I have read I really enjoyed this book. When the movie came out I went to the theaters to see it and was disappointed. I still gave it four stars on netflixs, but I was expecting a little more. After reading the book I moved the movie up in my queue to watch it again. I was surprised with how much liberty they took with his story. That doesn't seem like something you fuck with, but I listened to Swofford's audio cometary during the movie and he seemed fine with it so who am I to say.

This weekend I also watched a movie called Iris. The netflix description made me think that the movie was about an author who is succumbing to age reflecting back on her life. I was expecting the movie to be mostly flash backs, however the movie was mostly about the author suffering from Alzheimer's with her husband trying to take care of her, but he was starting to drift away too. With my experiences with dementia from my grandparents and the fact that I live alone this movie made me so uncomfortable I had to fast forward to the end. I know I am a long way from that, but it still was unpleasant to watch. I am really starting to not trust netflix's descriptions of movies.