Ele Munjeli
First off, none of the books I review is bad. If a book sucks, I won’t even bring it up. What would be the point? You can find bad books on your own; you don’t need my help. There’s no rating system here. I scour the new releases and sop up the classics so you don’t have to.
Most of the writing I do here is about books: to make it more than the usual review I tend to post a related video. This is a part of my own process as a reader. I often look up interviews with authors and movie trailers related to the books I read. There are fiction binges, mixed with history and science nonfiction, and occasional cookbooks and technical literature related to my erstwhile career in IT.
I started this blog two years ago to document my adventures with bicycle advocacy, and the older posts reflect that, but nowadays, I don’t ride with groups as much as I would like. Of course, I’m still cycling, to the tune of a hundred fifty miles a week, just to commute to work. If you’re looking for more information about me personally, I suggest you visit my home page, http://elemunjeli.com.
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The Butterfly Circus
While I passed Water for Elephants at the bookstore several times, I was finally hooked on the idea after viewing this short film set in [...]
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Margaret Atwood: Sci-Fi Speculation Informs Our Choice of Future
Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several [...]
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The Scent of Green Papaya
After reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, I went looking for vids on Haruki Murakami. No such luck. There’s a couple of bootlegs of a [...]
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Johnny Mnemonic: Molly’s Prequel
William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer features a character, Molly Millions, that he developed for the story Johnny Mnemonic. It was made into a movie starring Keannu [...]
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Animal Farm: Animated in 1954
Here’s a look at the animated version of Animal Farm produced in 1954. It’s available to watch on YouTube as an eight part series originally [...]
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Augusten Burroughs on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
I found this hipster-lit vid on YouTube. I will probably soften up on Augusten Burroughs as I read more of his work. At the moment, [...]
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Trailer: Ablutions
This absurd and compelling animated trailer reminds me of Mike Whiteside’s stories, which all began, ” I was sitting in this bar in Hollywood..” I [...]
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Trailer: Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist best known for Everything is Illuminated has written a new book about meat. Here in the trailer he discusses his [...]
