What's New?

Not much around the blog.  I guess that means I'll post.

(Crickets)

Fine. I'll post.  But I am sure my partners in blogging will respond as expressed below:



The moral of the story?  You can't trust the system. (especially when that would include some sort of rotating schedule of posting... moving on).

So, I have been in a reading funk and only recently came out of it.  Honestly, my exercise bike broke and I do lots of reading on it, so I was all out of sorts.  Now I have a new bike, so giddyup.  (So, really, I just found my routine again).  On to the update.

I read SEAL Target: Geronimo about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which was fun until I remembered that my first kindle broke that day.  But then I remembered I ended up toasting the news as Prof. Rozek would with some cognac (mixed with Coke because I'm not the badass Prof. Rozek was).  This book was an interesting look at how the operation was carried out and was written by a former SEAL who admitted that he was going to be vague in some descriptions because the information is classified.   Even with the inevitable editing, it was fascinating.

I Suck at Girls was the follow-up from Sh*t my Dad Says.  I loved that book so I felt duty-bound to read the follow-up.  The line of the book?  When discussing the intelligence of a friend of the author's, the dad says this:  "He's a minor head injury away from eating his own feces."  That right there was worth it.  OK, this book was also a blatant stat-padder.  Sue me.  It counts.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened was a memoir of the "blogger-turned-memoirist genre that has exploded in the aftermath of the first wave of popular bloggers.  It was very funny at times, but also got really old because her narrative does not change.  She's weird.  She wants you to know she's weird and "different" than others.  She does have enough sense to mock that narrative at times, but keeps going back to it.  I tend to feel we were all different flavors of awkward growing up and that there really isn't much variety other than how we dressed or talked.  But, she did get her arm stuck in a cow's vagina once, so it had some laughs. 

That leads to my current list, which is going to lead to some number drops soon. 

Alan chose Sabbath's Theater for book club and I will finish it in time for Saturday's meeting.  It's pure unadulterated smut, but it is also well-written and intelligent when it isn't graphically describing unmentionables.  To make this empirical, I put my kindle search engine to the task of quantifying the smut for you.  The results?

Uses of the word c***  : 56
Uses of the word c*** : 42

Which word is which?  Well, one rhymes with foxhunt and the other crows in the morning and the results would undermine the people who say this author does not favor women.  I have yet to finish this, but it's already creepy and good at the same time, so why belabor the point?

As Goes Texas is about how... uh... influential Texas is.  Also about it's history... how it operates... and just a lot of crazy Texas stories about crazy Texans doing crazy Texan things (politically).  *

*The rest of this paragraph has been edited to avoid upsetting our "at least one" Texas reader.  Needless to say, the paragraph would have likely led to references to nutty Southern things and probably would have furthered my reputation as an unrelenting Yankee and demeanor of all things Southern.  I'll just save everyone the trouble and say you can probably guess why this book makes me giddy.  Let's move on.

Kavalier and Clay is a great book and I have languished on it.  Dave assigned it to me, I love it every time I read it, but I keep talking myself out of reading it because it really requires tranquility and I don't get much of that.  Also, it's in paper form and I love Mother Earth too much to contribute to deforestation.  I am 130 pages in, love every word of it and for reasons I cannot explain, cannot seem to make progress.  I DID however, purchase it on Kindle and then return Dave's paper copy to him, so I sense progress in the near future!  I will suffer for my cause! 

Finally, I passed over the 50% mark in Order of the Phoenix with Jacob and sense progress.  Jacob was not interested in reading because he made a friend down the street and always wanted to go play.  Now, that friend has found a cooler and older friend and I can read to him again!  His loss, my win.  

My post, and I think I threw that gauntlet ON THE GROUND!!!