Category Archives: Books

>Book Review

>Last month I read The Lacuna, and The Help. The Lacuna dragged and dragged and finally at the end I was like, “Ooooooooooooh. I get it. It’s about how we thought we left McCarthyism behind, but between the media, and the Sarah Palins of the world we are reliving it.”

As for The Help, I have heard a million people say that I need to read it, but I thought they meant, I need to read it like I need to watch An Inconvenient Truth. Like, I should do it, because it’s the right thing to do. But maybe they were saying I should read it because the story is so good, you can’t put it down. It took about a month and $2.40 in late charges to read The Lacuna, and I read The Help in about 27 hours.

>Catching Up

>Back again – this time from another medical near disaster: a corneal ulcer. The good news is that I will not be going blind in one eye at this time. The potentially bad news (for my looks) is that even though I have been told I can wear contacts again, I am considering a break. So I may be requesting help picking out my next pair of glasses. On the one hand, I fear that asking the glasses person at the doctor’s office to take pictures of me in each and every style may be annoying. On the other hand, I have been in that office 5 days out of the last 7, and I’ll be going back several more times in the next few weeks. I’ve already tried on every pair of glasses in the store, so I think they won’t be surprised.

One of the doctors suggested that I figure out how to do a better job taking care of myself and managing stress. So I ordered a book about simplifying my life. And then I added some cake decorating tools to the order while I was at it. I may have a problem. Speaking of embarrassing problems, since I was shopping anyway, I added the last Twilight book to the order. My wonderful sister sent me the first one when I was convalescing a month ago. I bought the second one on my way to a doctors appointment for a complication, and I saw the third one (out of one eye) when I was picking up eye drops. 40% off! The pharmacy tech guy asked if I wanted a bag, and I said yes, to hide my book. Hopefully since I have already bought the book, I won’t need some sort of new and terrible medical emergency to give me an excuse to find out what happens with the sparkly vampires.

I still have all my Yellowstone posts to do, and now you can all look forward reading about my adventures with the Twilight series, simplifying my life, and then decorating some fancy cakes.

In the meantime – here is Luke doing a little rock climbing at the best raft/climb/guide/kayak store in Cody, WY.

>Not Reading

>I haven’t been able to add a lot to my list of Books Read for several reasons:

1.) Watching too much Deadwood
2.) Work
3.) Can’t get through A New Earth Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
a.) I feel sort of bad about this, but according to an O I read in a waiting room, it sounds like your Life’s Purpose is to not obsess about your weight. I already don’t do that.
b.) So boring
4.) Can’t get through Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With the Bill
a.) This book puts me right into a nightmarish sleep
b.) Last time I picked it up I thought, “Just tell me what to DO!” Then I turned to the “What you can do” chapter and fell asleep.
c.) Free Lunch has already cost me $0.30 in late fees from the library

Time to cut my losses and head back to the fiction section.