This week's reading/watching

I had the urge to read an old-timey mystery, so read Agatha Christie's The Murder in the Library (a Miss Marple mystery). It was enjoyable in that comforting way that only an Agatha Christie murder mystery can be. I also read Harry Shannon's novella Behold the Child, which I also enjoyed. Very well written hard-boiled gritty cop stuff with a bit of the supernatural thrown in for good measure.

I also watched the documentary Man on a Wire, about a tightrope walker who rigged a tightrope between the World Trade Center buildings and spent nearly an hour walking back and forth across it (staying just out of reach of the waiting police officers). It was fascinating how he and his cohorts pulled it off - someone in the film compared it to planning and executing a bank heist. The title comes from the police report filed - how they described his crime.