Ataraxia

  Cafeneaua Anului 1900 by Max Rosseti An interesting satire   It reminds me of Caragiale. There are a series of very short, but relevant tales of evils that affect the life of our people in the present and past. One of the vignettes refers to a familiar situation, where two supposed friends are involved, with a third party interested but in absentia -            The child of a friend has a problem -            Yes… -            He was given a bad evaluation -            And… -            He is a good guy -            I see -            But the damn teacher gave him a three -          ...

  Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read according to one critic, and ranked only 2332 nd by the algorithm used on The Greatest Books of All Time site, I will go even further and say that it is not withing the Top 10k with me, notwithstanding the fact that this list has not been compiled and most likely it will never be…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   6 out of 10   Sunset Song made me think of Lark Rise to Candleford https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/07/over-to-candleford-by-flora-thompson-is.html another novel about rural life, except I could engage with the latter, nay, the three novels contain within, but alas, Sunset Song is beyond me, difficult to follow and thus The Departed for yours, truly   Indeed, it is on one important list, The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must...

  Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain is included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, albeit it is only 2445 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, if you ask me, the former classification is deserved – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel waiting for you   9 out of 10   Huckleberry Finn https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-by.html is one of The 100 Best Books of All Time, Ernest Hemingway said ‘All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.’ Now, I do not appreciate Hemingway all that much…   I agree that this is one of the Best 1,000 Novels, even if the algorithm of the GOAT site placed it only 2445 ...

  Candleford Green by Flora Thompson is the third and last part in the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, which is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although on The Greatest Books of All Time the algorithm placed it only at 2461, my verdict inclines for the ‘defense’, it is more likely within my own 1,000 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   9 out of 10   I have been enchanted by Lark Rise https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/lark-rise-to-candleford-by-flora.html the first installment in the Lark Rise to Candleford novel by Flora Thompson, and then I moved to the next part, and finally to Candleford Green, which means that the trilogy is over for me, and I am grateful to the author     It is a rather conservative book, and I say this praising it, for I seem to be...

  Love & Other Drugs written and directed by Edward Zwick is a romantic comedy that had two Golden Globe nominations in 2011, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Anne Hathaway, nevertheless, it is not an outstanding feature – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my resplendent macaws   7 out of 10   I like Jake Gyllenhaal, best known perhaps for Brokeback Mountain https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/02/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx.html and I am also a fan of his sister, Maggie, her reading of The Bell Jar is one of the best performances in audiobooks that I know of   Nevertheless, Love & Other Drugs is not outstanding, a...

  Inception by Christopher Nolan – the writer, director and producer has become one of the most important film makers of our time, nay, of all time, in box office terms, he is already the seventh most successful, and he has a long way to go yet, besides, The Odyssey has just opened with a bang, about four hundred million dollars globally, in the first weekend – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws perform   8 out of 10   Christopher Nolan https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/oppenheimer-based-on-book-by-kai-bird.html is the artist of the moment, indeed, this note will actually concentrate on what happens now, almost exclusively, and not on Inception, which is not a favorite of mine, a conclusion reached already here.   Which means here comes the spoiler ale...