The weekend, "The departed" and the fillers

Fall appears to have befallen along the North-East coast. While the colors set the trees and scenery ablaze for the next few weeks giving the eyes a visual feast that cheers one and all through the bleak winter days, what it also means is that another year is slowly coming to an end. And as always, it seems like the year has crept by slowly and stealthily but surely, once again. While spring cleaning is time to bring out the shorts and flipflops, shop for suntan lotions and latest bikini fashions, put away the coats, jackets, scarves and gloves, fall's equivalent is autumn stocking (my term for an eqvt for spring cleaning) is the time to plan for leaf peeping, warm sweaters, garamchai by the fireside and unwinding to see the year off and welcome a new one.

Fall pic courtsey Milind Desai


So this weekend I got to watch the "The Departed". Rotten tomatoes and wiki pretty much say it all. As always Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio deliver superb performances that keep one hooked till the end.


Book read updates :

Robin Cook's Marker and Crisis - Rating 7/10 - Worth a read- thumbs up
James Ellroy's Black Dahlia - Rating 5/10 - Gripping story but mediocre narration
Frederick Forsyth's Afghan - Rating 6/10 - Not upto the mark of a usual Forsyth
PC's The Devil and Miss Prym- Rating 5/10 - The concept, while interesting, the flow wasnt smooth,hence the book fell flat(imo).
Andrea Smith's Sisterhood of the Blackberry Corner - 8/10 - Simple, touching and sweet.

In the reading checkout cart :

Julia Glass' Three Junes

Hm, in the need of book recos, me thinks.