Some thoughts on what I’ve read so far, and some responses

Wow! Who’s Chatty Chattertons today? (I am)

SO. Chris asked me if The Year Of Magical Thinking was hard to read. Chris, I don’t know if you have read any other Didion, but her prose is very clean. Death is a hard subject to write about, but the book is not dark at all. It is easy to read but sticks with you.

Jeremy asked if I thought We’re All In This Together would have gotten published if Owen weren’t related to that other King writer. I think it probably would have been, but stores would not have ordered so many copies that ended up on bargain racks, and therefore, I never would have read it. I’ve tried to read Tabitha, but I never seem to get through them.

ALSO: What is the What was written by Dave Eggers. Please do not let this concern you, as it is not at all cute, like Dave tends to be. I do enjoy Dave Eggers even when he is trying to be Very Clever, but he let that go in this book, and it is so powerful and wonderful that you will not think about the author at all.

 Finally, I took this up because my mother in law gave me Bookswim membership for Christmas, and I’ve been using it to get a lot of books I’ve wanted to read but haven’t. It is essentially Netflix for books. I am not entirely impressed – my number one and number two books in my queue have been the same since I started, and I haven’t gotten them yet, and I’m on my second batch of books.  To save costs, they use media mail, so it takes FOREVER to get books, and then return them. On the plus side, I get to borrow books, which is novel, since I am not allowed at the library anymore.

There. All wrapped up, not so bad.