Beyond Rivalry : RIP Oscar Peterson, 15 Aug. 1925

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Watched this week:

Reading this week:

in the middle of George Eliot's Adam Bede
finished Karin Slaughter's A Cold Faint Fear (2003) and Indelible (2004), both a little too rape-thriller for me. One was OK, two was too many.
finished Carolyn Hart's Set Sail for Murder (2007) in the Henrie O series. As bad as usual -- mindlessbeach reading.
read more of starting Jacques Barzun's 800-page From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (2000)

Ongoing reading:

James Alison's Undergoing God: Dispatches from the Scene of a Break-In (2006) and On Being Liked (2003)
Violence Renounced: Rene Girard, Biblical Studies, and Peacemaking (2000) by Willard M. Swartley

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I heard on All Things Considered Monday that great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had died the day before, at age 82. Today Sheila Lennon at Projo offers a short list of links to mp3s, including Peterson playing The Christmas Waltz, and obits. More at NPR here and here, and at Wikipedia.