Friday Flashback: List #6: A Few Seasonally Inappropriate Options for the Northern Hemisphere

I decided to start doing Friday Flashbacks in case you missed some earlier posts the first time around. You're busy; I understand. 

The weather has been very, very hot here. Disgustingly hot. If you're having the same problem, here are some things to cool you off. (Click on the Rec. # links for more info.)


1. Last Night at the Lobster (Rec. #8), book by Stewart O'Nan: It's late December, and employees at a Connecticut Red Lobster are working their last shift.

2. A Midwinter's Tale (Rec. #11), movie: An out-of-work actor stages a holiday production of Hamlet in a small village.

3. Northern Exposure (Rec. #35 and Rec. #161), TV series: In Cicely, Alaska, reluctant town doctor Joel Fleischman rails against rampant eccentricity.

4. Paris to the Moon (Rec. #39), book by Adam Gopnik: Read about the Winter Circus, French Christmas trees, and the Palais Royal in December.

5. Moominvalley in November (Rec. #109), book by Tove Jansson: Mymble, Toft, Fillyjonk, Snufkin, and others settle down to wait for the return of the Moomin family.

6. Death of an Englishman (Rec. #144), book by Magdalen Nabb: Marshal Guarnaccia can't join his family in Sicily for the holidays because there's been a murder, and everyone in his police department has the flu. Including him.

7. The Trouble with Harry (Rec. #145), movie: Nothing screams "autumn" quite like this deadpan Hitchcock comedy.

8. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Rec. #150), book by Peter Høeg: Copenhagen, snow, young boy's death, snow, amateur investigation, snow, conspiracy, snow, snow, snow.



[Originally posted 7/31/11.]