[books 2011] Pray for Silence

76. Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo

This is the sequel to Sworn to Silence, following the adventures of Kate Burkholder, an ex-Amish chief of police in a small Ohio town that has a sizeable Amish population.  I bought the first one because it was a gimmick I couldn't resist but found that it was better written than something that disposable has any right to be.

I didn't think this was as good as the first one, and I figured out who the killer was before Kate does (which I pretty much never do), but it's still well worth reading for the quality of the writing.  

[film] Let Me In

So, a couple weeks ago Lovefilm finally sent us the remake of Let The Right One In.  I always have to watch the English-language remakes of foreign films I like, just to see what gets done with them.

The good news is, it hasn't been all Hollywood-ized and glammed up.  It's very faithful to the Swedish version, to the extent that some of the playground outside the apartment block shots could be frame-for-frame.  It's a bit shorter, so that the minor characters are really nothing but vampire food, but that's not a big quibble.

In fact, it's so close to the original, that I ended up just feeling "why did they bother?"  Aside from people who won't watch anything with subtitles, but most of those people wouldn't watch something this "art-cinema" anyway.