Reader’s Diary

“Non-fiction”? See the updated entry for “Bringing Down the House”.

If you love to read you have to see this movie. “Stone Reader” is a documentary about one man’s search for the author of a forgotten book. There’s some deep sadness in it, but I was smiling much of the time I watched it. It’s a lovely film. For me to say any more would spoil it for you. Watch the trailer, but don’t Google for it, don’t look at the rest of the film’s web site, just get it, watch it, and post a comment telling me what you thought of it.

This observation by Edward Pettit rings true:

There are so many books out there to choose from, but there is a finite number of books that I will be able to read in my all too-short, smoke-filled, hoagie-eating lifetime. I figure that every book I read means there is another book that I won’t get to read. So each one has to be worth the time it takes to read, worth the other book that I won’t get to read.

Thanks to a link from Homer’s Travels, Readers Diary has rocketed onto Technorati. Onward and upward!

I’ve been remodeling. In addition to the book cover images, you’ll find a set of “get the book” links after each review.

Fraud!

It seems there’s more than one example lately of fiction pretending to be non-fiction. See the update to this post.