Morning report from the garden. When you only live for three weeks you have to make the best of it.
Let me say that I am not the only film critic who thinks that the best love scene of all time was the snails in ‘Microcosmos’.
Weren’t we supposed to get a thunderstorm? My car, where I spend most of my work day, is going to be an oven.
The cat’s all spread out on the floor and avoiding the sunny spots.
It’s a beautiful day. I’ll take too hot over too cold anytime.
For summer reading, I tried Stieg Larsson’s ‘Girl With the Dragon Tatoo’, which was okay, but I don’t get what the fuss was about. It’s a bummer that he didn’t live to enjoy the glory.
I hit the library for short stories by Ursula LeGuin and ‘Pigs in Heaven’ by Barbara Kingsolver, who is now up in my pantheon with LeGuin and Atwood. I’m looking for distraction, whether it’s good literature or mindless pulp paperback. What are you reading?
Recurring Nightmare 
Alan Furst-authentic novels of espionage and “underground”ops during 1930-1945.Lots of homework done and it shows.
F.Paul Wilson(first try with this author”The Keep”)
And anything else that looks good.
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“Why God Won’t Go away, Brain Science and the Biology of Belief” by Andrew Newberg Eugene D’Aquili and Vince Rause…looking forward to “The Discomfort Zone” by Jonathan Franzen.
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If you really like Mi(note correct spelling)Vida Local go to Acme and rent(on VHS)”The Man from Mallorca”and “Close to Eden”.
You will be alternately riveted and delighted.
Shame on you if you tossed your VHS player.
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sounds good. Acme is selling a lot of their tapes, too.
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If you’re enjoying Kingsolver, just keep on going. The Poisonwood Bible very nearly kept me from completing my education.
Since you mention Atwood, I assume you’ve read pretty much all of her stuff. If you haven’t, keep on going there too! Cat’s Eye is my favorite. I am not a terribly smug person (or so I hope!) but I’m a tad smug about having discovered her before she published The Handmaid’s Tale. (Mostly, though, I think that this just dates me!)
Have you read Penelope Lively? If not, maybe start with Moon Tiger.
And since Franzen was already mentioned: I loved The Corrections – the second book that nearly derailed my degree.
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Ralph isn’t selling those any time soon-they are not on DVD.
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I spent three years with Pentecostals, so ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ really rang true for me. It was also a painless history lesson about why Congo lost its chance to become a democracy. Thanks, Sungold and Observer for the reading and video list.
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