I'm reading Duma Key by Stephen King. I was not sure if I was going to be able to read this book because shortly after STO died (He idolized King) I went to see King speak at the university, sort of as a "fuck you" to STO in a time when I was starting to let myself feel angry with him for being such a dumbass. King read a short story about a man who wanted to kill himself. Felt like I was supposed to be there. I was in tears throughout most of the evening.

Shockingly the short story became the novel Duma Key, which takes place in the area I was born in. When the main character decides to live he moves there, to the beach. STO never saw a beach. I sent him and his kids shark's teeth from the area where Duma Key takes place. I know I'm creating the connections but ...

anyhow I'm going to read it.

((((Lil))))

Thanks. I might be being too honest :p

No such thing. Possible to be too blunt, but doesn't apply here. Everybody has to sort thru the levels of grief their own way.

May seem kinda lightweight compared to everybody else's reading, but I've read (& re-read & re-read) The Fab Four FAQ Book & Long and Winding Roads: the Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. The FAQ book is chock full of trivia bits even a long time Beatlemaniac like me didn't know, not to mention the real stories behind many of the great Beatle myths. The Winding Roads book is maybe more heavy lifting than I really wanted to do, with footnotes that are almost as long as the chapters they apply to, but still some interesting details I can chew on. I can't resist the siren's call of reading more about my heroes, even if nothing I learn has any chance of improving my quality of life...

Just finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Switching gears to the newest Glen Cook book. Zinc Melodies (I think that's the name).

Lil, I really believe we find connections; if they're not there, we don't see them. But that's just me.

I'm reading What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein

the kushiels stories are good but they do take a lot to get into

I'm reading the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. However, I can't wait for the third book from Eragon to come out and then the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin comes out this fall. I'm a huge fantasy geek.

I just finished Short Bus. I've just started Paul Coehlo's, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. I bought Eat, Pray, Love because it's never available at the library and this way I can pass it along to peeps who need to read it.

i would have mailed you my copy.^^ i wish i'd thought of it. :(

the devil in the white city by eric larson. historical, interesting, creepy, macabre and i'm likin it.

I finished Piedra in one sitting almost. Shit I love his stuff.

Started Eat, Pray, Love and really love the symbolism of the set up.

I really liked Eat, Love, Pray. It got me thinking, and that's a good thing. I've got a pile of new books waiting to be read. The Bhagavad Gita just arrived the other day.

A Princess of Mars, the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic, from the Gutenberg Project.

I am in the process of reading "whale road". Not sure I'm going to finish it. Lots of slow going. Authors first effort I think. I don't quit many books, but I think I will here.

Another Spider Robinson book, "Callaghan's Key"