There are two more books I read in 2009, but I’m not going to record them tonight. Soldiers of Reason, a history of the RAND Corporation, and The Contractor, a spy novel, were both library pickups, and interesting in different ways, but I’ll give them their own posts soon.
The many movies I saw but neglected to blog in 2009 may get a single wrap-up post in the new year, and then I’ll reconsider my policy of capturing my major media consumption. Creating rather than consuming matters to me, but I want this blog to be fun to write again, not a duty. And I want to think about things beyond books and movies. I do, but you wouldn’t know it from what’s here recently. 
Happy New Year a bit early. Here’s to an engaging Twenty10.
(This is the last post of my end-of-the-year rush to capture my major media consumption before the year actually comes to a close.)
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1 Captain Elias // Mar 11, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Sorry to comment here-it is unrelated-but I found a very old entry of yours about The Thirteen Gun Salute (the 13th Aubrey Maturin novel) and I was most curious as to whether you ever found Pulo Prabang on the map.
I am reading the series now for the 3rd time, and I delight in the part of the book where Stephen climbs the thousand steps to the oasis called Kumai. The internet tells me different things, one of which is that Pulo Prabang is a fiction island O’Brien made up.
But I still cling to hope. The second I get monstrously rich I want to travel, and I want to go there more than anything. Ideally I would follow all of Maturin’s naturalizing footsteps, but, aside from Desolation Island, this utopia seems really to be his favorite.
Please let me know if you have any information. All the best,
Captain Elias
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