I found a new blog Shallow Thoughts Blog. She comments on books and TV shows. We don't watch the same TV shows (The Bachelor and related shows leave me cold as do Little House On The Prairie reruns) always but I do appreciate her comments about The Real Housewives Of Washington DC. They are hilarious as are her comments about Little Joe (Pa on the Little House show etc.)
Her book reviews are warm and funny, OK the two or three I read were warm and funny. Anyway check it out.
What REALLY got me is her book review blog is supposedly silly and superfluous? Mine (I thought) was all solemn and like serious....as solemn and serious as I can be anyway.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Long Way Down By Nick Hornby
The basic premise of A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby is (and yes I do use stilted sentences in order to get the books title and author in here) four people have rather bad luck of their own making but fate has a part to play in it. So far I've described about 99.99% of the world and stories huh? Not quite sure how I missed this book before. It's good. It's old but it's good. The people are in Britain which I don't always find particularly stimulating or interesting but this time it just added to the plot, I swear it did, if you've read this blog I don't blather on about things I don't think are true, I just blather on about true things. So these four disparate souls end up contemplating suicide and through simple (OK, not so simple but not extraordinary) means the guide each other back to normalcy if not happiness. Naturally they learn quite a bit along the way. Although this book is entertaining I do recommend it for anyone who has ever been "down" or depressed.
I'd give it a 7 or a B, actually if I could have 100 books on a desert island for entertainment this might be one. BTW I got my copy @ a thrift store while I was doing laundry while away from home...Dispatch was in the motel room and I told the lady who ran the laundrymat/thrift store that I had to go back and check on my dog. She told me if he was well behaved and small he could come back to the laundrymat with me. I decided to take a chance on the well behaved and he was a charmer. Loved on people who wanted loved on, looked @ the others like "whatzamatter, never seen a BEECHON before"?
I'd give it a 7 or a B, actually if I could have 100 books on a desert island for entertainment this might be one. BTW I got my copy @ a thrift store while I was doing laundry while away from home...Dispatch was in the motel room and I told the lady who ran the laundrymat/thrift store that I had to go back and check on my dog. She told me if he was well behaved and small he could come back to the laundrymat with me. I decided to take a chance on the well behaved and he was a charmer. Loved on people who wanted loved on, looked @ the others like "whatzamatter, never seen a BEECHON before"?
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