#cbr10bingo #whitewhale I purchased this book five years ago and began to read it for one of the Cannonballs but stopped after about 20 or 30 pages. I had not seen the award-winning film (still haven’t) but I knew it was about patients in a psych ward and a sadistic nurse. I stopped reading because I knew, just based on the first few pages, that actions would be described that I did not want to read, so I put it aside and decided to come […]
Nicholson Flew Over the Place Where Birds Roost
I make a “not bucket list” every year of things I’d like to do in the upcoming year and read/watch “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” made the cut, so it was the perfect thing to tackle during a mini Spring Break-staycation. Randle Patrick McMurphy is a gambling con-man in the 196os who trades a stint on a prison work farm for a stay in an asylum. The men’s only asylum has a rich cast of characters who are battling their own personal demons, but […]