THREE TITLES: The Partly Cloudy Patriot, The Coma, and A Girl Named Zippy THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT by Sarah Vowell Oh I love Sarah. I really do. It started around the winter holidays when I saw her being interviewed in a TMBG doc. called Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) with Ira Glass (I’m a [...]
I know…I know….some of these books I read about two months ago…and then when it came to blog, I just became wrapped up in other things. Astonishing Spashes of Colour by Clare Morrall I remember putting this book on a list of books I wanted to read soon after I found out it was a [...]
I’ve had a few days to think about this one since finishing it. Surprisingly, the book I picked to read afterwards (HouseKeeping, which is below this) had some similarities in terms of a reflective sort of tone. The subject matter, plot, and themes, are very different, however. Eugenides creates the story of sisters who live [...]
The basic jist of this book is that two sisters living in the small town of Fingerbone in the Far West have become accostomed to loss as almost a routine. Coping with deaths is just a fact of their lives. Their lives are more full of ghosts than the living. It’s a somewhat haunting journey [...]
I was kind of procrastinating with this one to be sure as I finished this a week ago. I want to make this one short. I think first of all, it would be wrong to call this a love story (which some have called it) because it’s really more a combined story of love, loss, [...]
Everyone should read this. It’s so short it will take you an hour-maybe an hour and a half if you have a headache and you are in the middle of a Princess Bride scene and have to fight off shrieking eels or rodents of unusual size. Just a rough estimate. Okay, admittedly I am a [...]
Okay…I want to blog about three films and three books. Luckily, it’s raining so I can’t go on my intended bike ride and instead have lots of time to catch up. I should probably blog about music too but right now these are priority. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Let me say that Vonnegut always has [...]
I’m behind already in writing about what I have been reading. And sadly Vonnegut’s Timequake and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead are going to have to wait for tomorrow or the weekend. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I really enjoyed this novel more thoroughly than I did One Hundred [...]
I just finished Paul Coehlo’s Veronika Decides to Die today. It’s not as depressing as it sounds, really. It has one of those appreciating life just when you feel your own death is imminent sort of feels to it and it explores, although on a lesser level, female sexual awakening that Coehlo’s Eleven Minutes delved [...]