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I finished reading The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing and it was really good. It's short and very terse and direct and the writing at a distance could seem plain, but it's very effectively written. Later at night Mary Beth and I went to Paradiso to see "Wuthering Heights" and I did not think it was very good. I found its attempts to be edgy and shocking to feel forced and insubstantial. (I haven't read the book, but Mary Beth's major complaint was (and the movie is not attempting to be a faithful adaptation at all, very much the opposite, which can be fine, but at every point where something was changed (out of many many points), she felt the filmmakers made the exact opposite decision as to which direction it should have gone). Not much else, it's Friday and that tends to be a nice thing.