Had to check out Carrie Fisher's new book, Wishful Drinking, from Barnes and Noble last night for the following reasons:
1) It's a memoir.
2) By a celebrity.
3) Who is bipolar.
4) And was married to Paul Simon.
So far so funny. She is irreverent and candid and self-deprecating. It's also quite short (like her, like Paul Simon, and like their marriage); I read almost half of it before falling asleep.
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So, are you interested at all in what WE'RE reading?
No. It's not Tuesday.
Just kidding! Do tell!
Oh no, it's too late now.
I liked the cover photo - it was Princess Leia bombed in front of a martini, right?
Christine - can you remove the post that uses my whole name? Thanks
Looks like you got it, Sophia.
Oh man, Don, your avatar is perfect! And Christine, "no, it's not Tuesday" cracked me up.
I'm not reading anything except The Jungle. Still. :\ If it doesn't turn me into a vegetarian, at least it's making me depressed and angry and disgusted, so that's something, right?
~Lisa
Oh man, Don, your avatar is perfect! And Christine, "no, it's not Tuesday" cracked me up.
I'm not reading anything except The Jungle. Still. :\ If it doesn't turn me into a vegetarian, at least it's making me depressed and angry and disgusted, so that's something, right?
~Lisa
Ah, Lisa, NOW you're in the Holiday Spirit!!! ;)
P.S. Don, we'd be more interested in what you were reading if you weren't reading about HUMAN WASTE. Of course, I'd be more than happy to make a recommendation for your next book...
Christine, I have heard that book is QUITE entertaining. I'll be glad to hear your complete hashing of it when you're done! :D
Wow, from a dry spell of nothing to a torrent of comments.
I am getting a lot of fun reading done at last, as my students have finals and I get to sit in front of them while they fill in Scan-Tron bubbles. I've been flipping back and forth between Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams, which is excellent, Evelina, by Fanny Burney, which is left over from one of my classes and reminds me of a much less elegantly-written Jane Austen novel, and Wintersmith, the third novel in Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men Discworld books, which is hilarious.
Lisa: You are brave to read The Jungle. The excerpts I've read for history classes were more than enough for me.
Martha: Are YOU reading anything?
Lisa, The Jungle is a perfect holiday read. Sounds like you are enjoying it appropriately.
Martha, Don is reading about human waste? Get out the jingle bells for that one, too.
DRD, glad you are getting in some pleasure reading now that you are done with your semester of school and now that your students don't need your signing abilities for long stretches of time.
Nice to see that you are all still with me!
Danika-
Of course I'm reading. What do you think I'm doing, sitting at home looking at eBay and gossip blogs all day? *cough*
In MY holiday spirit, I'm reading several books about poverty and that favorite downtrodden peoples, the lower working class.
Nickel & Dimed (rereading)
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
and (stillll reading) Code of the Street
also glancing at (fiction) The Meaning of Night
while longingly wanting to read my newest acquisition Dark Banquets: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-feeding Creatures, Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, and Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals. (Apparently I like books with subtitles...)
All perfectly acceptable holiday fare, I promise. (Don, this is why I like to outsource my reading when I can! *cough Sally Hemings cough*
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