Pickford or Thief?

I began this book over a week ago and have only managed 100 pages.  That's not like me.  I'm not sure if it's my own mood through Thanksgiving or if the book is "boring". All I know is that I am setting it aside for now and will try more of it at another time.

There were some small parts of interest  however they were more about the "time" than Mary Pickford herself...

"Short films had entered Vaudeville as early as 1896, and the nickelodeons by 1905.  By 1907 there were ten thousand nickelodeons in the US selling 2 million tickets a day.  Most were converted storefronts, filled with chairs and hung with muslin or a sheet for a screen."

"Thomas Alve Edison patented more than a thousand inventions in his lifetime, including the phonograph, the microphone, and the incandescent electric light bulb.  But initially he showed no interest in the movies, or in efforts of previous engineers to animate photography with movement.  He claimed he worked only for the dollar, and he considered the movies uncommercial. ( Edison also saw no future for the airplane)."

For Now I am going to close that book and try another  ..

... we'll see if this one gets my interest better than the other.  I really do dislike giving up on a book, and it happens rarely (thank goodness).    And although the author doesn't seem to have found whatever it is that makes a biography interesting as did Simon Louvish with "Stan and Ollie", I do think my mood has a lot to do with it also.

Here's hoping The Good Thief shakes me out of the funk the other book seems to have put me in.

Meanwhile I have been enjoying movies!

As you saw in my last post I went to see Australia and it was enjoyed to the fullest!

On the "home front" David bought some movies and we've been watching them too.  First we watched Wall-E.  I now want a toy Wall-e!! Too darn cute! hahaha.. I can relate to Wall-e never getting things to work out they way he hoped, but never giving up either!

Then there was Kung Foo Panda.  It was cute, but not nearly as good as Wall-E.  In the wings we have Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Fraser.  Then TCM showed two more Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes movies yesterday... so it's been a good few days for movies.

One last note here.. I woke early, as I always do and was on my computer as "daybreak" approached.  It was very cloudy and didn't get very bright.  I was reading some of my normal blog stops when something out of the corner of my eye made me turn and look out the window...

... that my friends is snow!  Yep it snowed like hell for about 20 minutes, then slowly turned to rain. :o(    But I ran out to the deck in the back and took this photo of what snowflakes managed to stick to the railing before they disappeared!