There seems to be a discrepancy in my media consumption.

Books I’ve read in the last two and a half months, in chronological order:

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, by Andrew Solomon

(might be missing one here)

Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. The Supreme Court, by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn

The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800, by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick

Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, by Andrew Sullivan

On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill

Inferno, by Dante, translated by Robert Pinsky

The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles

And I’ve just started The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann.

Movies I’ve rented in the last two and a half months, in chronological order:

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Liberty Heights (1999)

Waiting for Guffman (1996)

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Nurse Betty (2000)

Pillow Talk (1959)

That Touch of Mink (1962)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

X-Men (2000)

Legally Blonde (2001)

American Pie 2 (2001)

Damage (1992)

New York: Episode 1: The Country and the City (1999)

Meet the Parents (2000)

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

Amelie (2001)

Two Weeks Notice (2002) (that’s bad grammar!)

Indiscreet (1958)

Erin Brockovich (2000)

Notorious (1946)

And last night I watched Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).

I’m not sure what conclusion to draw from all of this, other than lately I seem to enjoy heavy books and funny movies. But it takes longer to read a book than to watch a movie, so one would think I’d be into lighter books and heavier movies.
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