Author Archives: Anthony Messina

5k Goal

Amara, Jessy, and I joined the YMCA last month, mostly because the building is less than a block away from us. We’re training for the Y Run For Kids, set for April 13th. It’s a 5k run. I’ve been running 1.5 miles this week. That’s a big improvement from when I started; I could barely run half a mile a day. Buying running shoes helped.

The plan is to add half a mile to my run every week. That should bring me up to 3.5 miles a run in time for the 5k (5 km = 3.11 miles).

Speculation

Speculation by Edmund Jorgensen. Pass. It’s like the poor man’s da Vinci Code. At least I finished the book, so it’s not exactly the worst. I have no idea why Amara recommended this to me. It was all right as a light read, but overall I felt like I wasted my time.

And now I feel bad. It was the guy’s first novel 🙁

Adaptation

Hilarious! A movie that excels at being a movie. Not a bad way to waste a couple of hours. I’ve read a lot of good things about Adaptation, so I’m glad I got a chance to watch it. Nicolas Cage really excelled.

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

I finished If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler a few weeks ago. It’s an excellent short-story-type novel that kept me in wonder. This is one of those times that going into a book blind paid off; I had no idea what to expect and laughed at least throughout. Highly entertaining, and a light read. It reminded me of The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: the idea that one hidden story persists through all stories the world over.