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December 18, 2003
in which she housesits
I'm still working through the books from the stack I picked up last week -
Coming Home to Eat was really irritating (I am all for voluntary eating restrictions, but when he started traveling with plastic baggies of home-smoked cactus I just couldn't take him seriously)
The Man Who Ate Everything was as amusing as the recommender suggested. I can't wait to get to It Must Have Been Something I Ate, now.
Halfway through Savage Beauty, which I had to stop reading for a bit because I just started relating to her too closely. I love her intensely personal and silly letters, her meandering life story, her tendency towards baby talk. It also sparked a hilarious memory of performing Aria de Capo in high school. . .
Easy was just as crapulent as I thought it would be, I only read 80 pages into my 100-page crappy book limit, but I am grateful to the author for reminding me of one of my favorite Mae West quotes: when told she had ten men waiting for her in her dressing room after a show, she said "Send one of them home, I'm tired." Gotta love that Mae.
Who You Know was exactly what I expected. One train-ride's worth of reading. Lovely little bit of writing about online dating, but other than that, it's a morsel of a book that left me hungry for something more substantial.
I'm house-sitting for the lovely and talented Hannah and Jorge over the holidays, and, seeing as they don't have cable, I'll be sure to finish my borrowed selection well before the new year. Unless I end up just sitting and admiring their lovely home. Seriously, their place is the most beautiful house ever, even with their protests of 'mess' and 'it's still a work in progress'. I'm especially fond of the floor-to-ceiling window in their guest room, and the darling little green tiles in their amply-bathtubbed lavatory. Funny, just as I wondered about her, she telephoned with this generous opportunity - and yes, she's just as lovely, if not more so, than I remembered. . . hmmm. . . I should wonder out loud about people more often. . .
Posted by Heather at December 18, 2003 11:50 AM
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Isn't house sitting fabulous??? As for book recommendations - the library here is pitifully small - I'll have to venture out to a larger town for a better selection - but I did check out Paul Auster's new book, Oracle Night, and it was so good I was up half the night finishing it . . . haven't done that in a while . . .
Posted by: Katherine at December 19, 2003 11:29 AM