Wednesday

So. Started a big book last night (John Sayles' A Moment In the Sun, 955 pages, chiclets) and watched a big movie this afternoon (Terrence Malick's The New World). I can say that the first fifty or so pages of Moment In the Sun are really good, and that The New World is just ... amazing. I thought it was lyrical and beautiful, and I would have given it a MUCH higher score than IMDB. It's also very much a Malick film, with lots of Meaningful Shots of water and sky, but it's way more accessible than his Tree of Life, possibly because it tells a much more straightforward story and has more people viewers would recognize (Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, among others). The Native American actors are all terrific, especially Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas, August Schellenberg as her father, and Wes Studi as her uncle Opechancanough. Two very strong thumbs up.

Bright and sunny today. Must run some errands tomorrow.