I readThe Road this week. Compelling? Certainly, depressing? You bet! It also made me appreciate the life I have a hell of a lot more than I did last week.
Reading suggestions?
I'm reading Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley. It's one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time. Fine political/societal satire, especially for those of us on the cusp of the Baby Boom & Gen X (I was born in 1966).
Also, despite my addiction to NPR, I don't think I would have heard of Kucinich's call for impeachment if I weren't on his email list.
Well, I'm out on the Left Coast, in the blue oasis of Seattle, and I'm not hearing too much about it out this way either.
Oh, after the debates, they added the topics of Sen. Clinton's pearls and whether she was "feminine enough" as opposed to "too feminine", to the discussion along w/ J. Edward's hair. I believe they even used the word "shrill" in describing her voice at one point, although they were generally supportive of her.
I'm pretty pissed at how the debates were not rebroadcast, to my knowledge. The debates played at 4 in the afternoon, Left Coast time. Who is not working at 4pm? Please! Then, they spend from 5:30pm to 1am doing "post debate analysis". I'm sorry, but how 'bout using some of those hours to rebroadcast it for the working folks, so we can see it for ourselves, instead of listening to these media types tell us what to think about it? Grrr. Media, I spit in your general direction.
You can watch Bill Moyer's show here - http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journa.../btw/
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And that Cat and Girl cartoon was hilarious!
And disappointed about the impeachment news. I guess only sex gets people interested.
And I've just read three non-fiction books, but before that I read Wuthering Heights, which I liked. But you've probably already read that.
I recently read Shani Mootoo's The Cereus Blooms at Night. It was good. I had heard her read and actually had a beer with her back in November and figured I really should read one of her books. I should have done it earlier. It's not light though.
For fiction, I am reading Les Miserables, one of my all time favorite books. Of course, at 1400+ pages, you might be reading this for a few weekends. But worth it!
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I just re-read "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody" by Will Cuppy. Before that I re-read "Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto. Geez, I need to get to the library where I'll be looking for "Baby Shark" by Robert Fate, which is supposed to be noirish but great, according to a friend.
Lill in Maine
I just finished Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and liked it a great deal...also Benedict Kiely's The Captain with the Whiskers. Both require the same kind of reading--loosening up one's brain a bit to absorb rather than follow along the narrative.
If you haven't yet, "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" and the sequel whose name escapes me at the moment, is pretty funny.
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