(Debby)
Man, I totally blogged from Accra! And it came out as a blank posting. Shucks. A Summary:

In Search of Lost Time continues - I'm up to "Madame Swann at Home", and it was the perfect complement to a somewhat bizarre time in Ghana. Just perfect.

More Bladerunner theme nights:
- eat Chinese food and drink Coca-Cola
- play that game where everyone gives 2 truths and 1 lie (the test to see if someone is an android involves asking questions and measuring the physical empathetic response)
- watch Bladerunner, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report (all based on Philip K. Dick novels and short stories)

(Debby)

Apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson – the sequel to Kidnapped(!) is Catriona, not Katriona. I was looking for Treasure Island (alas, with no success), and I noticed that 1) I had made this misspelling in my previous posting, and 2) the library has at least a half dozen copies of Catriona. Did some secondary school require Catriona, a story that primarily concerns itself with Scottish politics of the 1800s, as mandatory reading? Or did a series of libraries in the UK decide that, really, what the national public library of Kenya needed was more copies of Catriona?

Hey Hallie – I forgot about Flannery O’Connor. You are right! You are right! I LOVE her short stories. Amanda and I both took a course from Todd Davis on Flannery O’Connor and Kurt Vonnegut our first year at Goshen. The perfect pairing of authors!

Hey Amanda - I totally support the use of NetFlix. Did you finish the Gilmore Girls? Final thoughts on fast-talking gals dealing with life and love in small East Coast town?

(Debby)
I do appreciate a Thing Well Done.

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote books that are exquisitely crafted and exceptionally carried out. I had only a few minutes at the library, so I grabbed Murder Must Advertise. It’s even better the second (and third) time around. I recommend reading it after you’ve read some of the other Lord Peter Whimsey books. It’s an amazing character, in part because of the changes he goes through over the years. Oh man, character development. Character development in the context of really excellent story-telling. Is anything better than that?
Holes. The library has a couple copies of the book! Again, written with great care, a book that is absolutely impeccable.
Juno – I watched it in the movie theatre! That doesn’t happen very often. I thought it was Just Great. A good movie watched with a good friend. Safe travels, Marlies! (Marlies is going on a 'Round the World trip! Well, more of a 'Round the Pacific and Southeast Asia area trip, but one of those exciting tickets we all always wanted to buy)
Serenity –is a really, really, Really Good movie. A movie made with love.

Song of the Day: Bizarre Love Triangle, New Order.
Book of the Day: Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Parker
Movie of the Day: Serenity
Document of the Day: Interim Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, 22 August 2007 – great stuff on biofuel production and its implications for the right to food