Actually, it's Rainy Days + no desire to watch football since the Chargers tanked it in the playoffs and crushed my Super Bowl hopes = lots of time for Reading...
my reading view, if the cat isn't crushing my chest
Five Stars: The Story of Edward Sawtelle -- picked it up several times in bookstores over the past year but something else always won out; my loss because I really enjoyed it all the way through (although I wouldn't have minded a happier ending). Now I must reread Hamlet, and get a dog.
3 Stars: Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard, starring George Clooney/Jack Foley -- Leonard is one of my guilty pleasures grab a book from the Library shelf and devour it in an afternoon reads, and while this one had moments it wasn't his best. Kind of a weird, boring ending.
East, West -- short stories by Salman Rushdie
You Shall Know Our Velocity -- still working on this one, and appreciating every page; Dave Eggers is one of my favorites and he's breaking my heart.
Okay, finished it last night, 4 Stars, and while I need to re-read the last few pages (is he better or worse? alive or dead?) I definitely put it in the "you should read this" category. Although not so soon after reading The Mystic Art of Erasing All Signs of Death -- similar theme of young lives lost tragically and horribly -- and the spate of zombie books I've picked up lately. Now I need something carefree and crime-free, humor and sex and not at all realistic...
I've also kicked off twenty-ten with a few good children's books , especially recommend The Girl Who Could Fly ...
my other reading view, but it's been too c-c-cold (down to the 50's!) and we even got some hail, something the boys had never seen before. I saved some in the freezer for them...
Also picked up a few good CDs: Randy Newman's "The Best Of...", Silversun Pickups "Carnavas", the "Reality Bites" soundtrack, Morphine's "Cure For Pain" and the Hope For Haiti Now benefit album....
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