Once again

This should not be difficult.  In fact for what I have read, I have enjoyed it, though I almost cried on the bus when Sissy was taken away from the circus troupe to live with "facts."  How depressing.  The problem isn't the book, it's that we are smack in the middle of the Seattle International Film Festival, and I keep going to movies and shirking all else (well, that and getting ready for a concert tour in Finland, which is now a month away, and I finally went in to renew my passport 2 weeks ago, paid the extra $60 to go in in person, but haven't made it to the post office to see if it has arrived yet.) I only have one movie left, at least as far as tickets go.  It would have been 15 in all, but I missed one on Saturday because the screening times were tight and I needed to get across town, but missed (several, possibly) the bus because I stayed for the round-table discussion after the movie, A Beautiful Game, a documentary about soccer in Africa.  Last night, saw the Mexican Suitcase, a documentary about lost negatives from the Spanish Civil War, that recently turned up in Mexico.  I had contemplated not going, because it was a late-ish screening and I was tired, and while it's true that I nodded off a couple of times, it was due to tiredness and not boredom.  I am interested in Spanish history and I'm also a photographer, so it's a double-hit for me, plus it was one of the best-made documentaries that I've seen (even though I will sacriligeously say that it was a bit one-sided...I felt the same way when I went and saw the Guernica painting in the Reina Sofia last September.  The Republican-side is certainly more sympathetic, and I lean in a direction away from facism, but to only speak for one-side, however in the right they might be, is to leave too much space for propoganda...not saying that either the film or the exhibit went there, just saying it was biased. And I do get that there were years of suffering under the fascism of Franco, as well as the execution of Republicans, and the stealing of children to give to "good Nationalist" families, etc.,  Perhaps what I see as biased is the result of years of facist propoganda and the time arriving for the Republicans to be heard, they were silenced and/or exiled for generations.  If the young people are ever to learn the true history of their country, and they appear to want to know, no one of the older generations talks about it (el pacto olvidado), they will need to hear both sides, and hopefully, not return to war or retribution.)