My husband hadn't seen the sci-fi film Elysium, so he and I went to a matinee yesterday afternoon. Again, I cried at the end, for the image of the mother and her daughter, where the med bed can heal her daughter from leukemia. I'd like a device like that for my daughter, where she is instantly healed, instead of going through all the treatments she is facing. I love the messages in the movie, both political, about health care and class, and the image of how earth looks from above: so beautiful and and pristine. We need to remember life is a beautiful gift, no matter what the struggles.
I finished a book by Benjamin Black last night, Holy Orders. These mysteries are by the great writer John Banville, and are set in the 1950's in Dublin, with the protagonist being a doctor named Quirke. This one attacks the Catholic Church, and the unlimited power and influence it wielded. These books are dark, and psychologically complicated, with wounded characters and no language or information for what they are suffering through.
Now I'm reading the Canadian writer Louise Penny's new book, "Where the Light Comes In", which is immediately engaging and the characters as comfortable as old friends. I was waiting for this book for a month. She is a treat. I usually give away mysteries, but I've kept all Black's and Penny's. Rereading them will be a treat.
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