Books/TV/Baseball

There was recently a day honoring black cats and Patricia Highsmith had one (Spider), even dedicated a book to him so will check out some books by her. I started by re-reading The Price of Salt (Carol), her second book-movie (if much later), starting off with Strangers On A Train. The movie is fairly loyal though makes Therese a photographer and takes out a few Therese scenes; to me, it works better. The book is good but seems a bit too long. I'm reading a fiction book [Amreekiya] I found by chance at the new Van Cortlandt Park Library (nice place) about a Palestinian-American. It goes back and forth from her childhood and early years of her marriage. Nice down to earth first effort.

By chance, I found that the Danish t.v. show Borgen is playing on an arts channel and have a chance weekly to watch the third season. Fitting for the "Trump wants to buy Greenland" thing, which by now is almost old news. (Our ambassador had a short lived "Z" class movie career.) It skips forward a few, the first female PM now out of power and wanting to come back. Meanwhile, the Mets swept the Indians [sloppy play; As swept Yanks, pushing them into a Wild Card slot] in their "see they can beat more than bad teams" playoff race period but the Braves continue to trouble them. Still not quite in a WC slot.