He knows you've crinkled food wrappers two rooms away

I'm currently reading THE BRAQUE CONNECTION by Estelle Ryan. This is 3rd of 6 in series featuring nonverbal communication expert, insurance investigator, and high functioning autistic Doctor Genevieve Lenard. Here's a description:

When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills. For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him. Now forged paintings and mysterious murders are surfacing around her team, with evidence pointing to one of them as the killer. Genevieve knows Kubanov is behind these senseless acts of violence. What she doesn't understand are the inconsistencies between his actions and the cryptic messages he sends. Something has triggered his unpredictable behaviour, something that might result in many more deaths, including those she cares for. Because this time, Kubanov has nothing to lose.

Published in 2013, it has 377 pages. 

Favorite Christmas movies. There are classics like It's a Wonderful Life, there are Hallmark Channel"s Christmas factory ones that suck you in against your will. And here are some of the ones I like:

A modern classic now, Love Actually. Ensemble cast. Very British humor, with pathos. This is the ending scene that reminds us that the most important things are often right here and that there's no need to search for happiness if we don't have in mind that our family and our friends are the most important things in the world.



The FUNNIEST Christmas movie is A Christmas Story. There are too many fabulous scenes so here's the original trailer:



My favorite of the 1960s specials is Santa Claus is Coming to Town with Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney as the red-haired Kris:



And there is only ONE Grinch. The animated one:



And for the true meaning of Christmas, the best is A Charlie Brown Christmas:


I guess you can tell my influence comes mostly from my kidhood, eh?

For many years, there was a movie from 1977 called The Gathering that I somehow seemed to watch for every time. They don't show it anymore, too many to choose from now I suppose. It starred Ed Asner about a man who tries to set things right with his estranged family after learning he has a short time to live and have one last Christmas together.



And then there are the "anti-Christmas" movies like Die Hard which are actually just movies with a Christmas time-fame but not really about Christmas, but they get lumped in there anyway. I have to admit, Bruce Willis was cool and Alan Rickman was a very sexy bad guy in this movie.



It's Christmas Eve Eve. Are you ready?

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster