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One of the best books I've read in the last 6 months is . .

. . . The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn. Mendelsohn is a classics professor at Bard and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. The Lost is the story of his efforts to find out how six family members - his grandfather’s brother, and his wife and four daughters - died during the Holocaust. Part memoir, part family history, part detective-like search, part history of WW II, part meditation on the relationship between the present and the past, it is one of the most deeply engrossing and affecting works of nonfiction that I have ever read. How about you?

Seen any good movies lately?

I thought there was already a thread like this but couldn’t find it. Just saw Manchester by the Sea (Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams). I think I liked it. Similar in tone to The Sweet Hereafter and Mystic River. Have not seen anything (in a theatre) in a while. Anyone see (and like) The Accountant? Girl on the Train? American Pastoral? Any other good ones?

Binge watched tv shows

Who watched the first season of Broad Church? We just binge watched the show. The first season was 8 episodes. We really enjoyed the show. It is a little slow moving. The accents are tough. The father looks like somebody we know. So… We have binge watched Homeland, the Affair and Broad Church recently. Thinking about binge watchng the Americans. I love Keri Russell. I don’t know why I didn’t watch season 2. Definitely going to binge watch House of Cards. So? Did anybody watch Broad Church? Anything great to binge watch? I think 8 to 12 episodes a year is great. 20 episodes a season is tough.