Finished THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

I finished The Count of Monte Cristo a few days ago.  Now I'm working on a Coles Notes version (Cliff Notes for you Americans) summarizing the plot and the characters just to sort it all out in my mind!

I'm now reading The Republic for Which It Stands, a history of the U.S.A. in the Gilded Age after the Civil War, for next month's History Meetup.

Saw Ridley Scott's Napoleon movie with John P. and Debbie a few weeks ago.  It wasn't boring, but his relationship with Josephine wasn't really convincing. (Maybe they should make a movie centred on Josephine...)

Betty from my memoir group took me to lunch Sunday.  She tells some incredible stories--I think she could write a book!

Last night at the historical movie watch party I actually showed a movie I hadn't seen before:  the 1938 MGM Johann Strauss bio-pic The Great Waltz.  It wasn't so great:  the sort of movie where the hero falls for the Fast Girl but in the end she sends him back to the Nice Girl...