Opossum…

I read somewhere recently, that the average female oppossum  has 13 nipples.  Why I found that interesting not quite sure. But I did and to me it is.  Go figure. 

Reading a lot lately….

…so just in case you were looking to pick up something interesting why not share my thoughts on what I have recently put down. 

The first book was called The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel.  The dust jacket design called to me, once I read the inside I knew it was right up my alley.  Not because I am a suspense reader persay but when I am not in the reading mood and I need to stoke those fires brain candy is perfect.  Brain candy that appears to require a brain is all the better.  A book with Freud, Jung and what appears to be the repeat pattern of a psycho sexual predator wandering the streets of Manhattan has to be either fabulous or terrible at least that was my thought process.  I was shockingly incorrect for it was just okay.  There were moments of really good can’t put down and then moments of ugggh you’re kidding me right.  The ending was full of twists and turns but not of the wow variety more of the huh seriously come on variety.  Like suspense/mystery at least check it out I can’t promise you will love it but I can’t promise you won’t.

Next on the list was the most recently released novel by Christopher Moore , one of my favorite comedic writers.  The title elicits a snicker or two by itself  … You Suck: A Love Story.  This is not my favorite book by Christopher Moore but it was a quick and entertaining look at the tragic and tragically funny romance between two recent vampire recruits.   Replete with amusing characters including a blue (yes you read that correct blue) hooker from Vegas, a homless man and his rather large sweater wearing cat, not to mention the most entertaining of all charachters for methe couples minion Abby Normal.  It was one of those finish quick…enjoy the entire time…but not necessarily call up your friends begging them to pick up this book or they will be missing out on something so splendid they could never forgive themselves.  If you are looking for something funny to read as escape from your everyday, pick it up.

Library Thing…

This is one of the coolest library cataloging sites I have seen. I am going to sign up soon. Check it out.    http://www.librarything.com

Yup that’s me…

I am one of your annoying friends.  The one in the group that has to spoil the fun.  Everyone is excited everyone sets a date a time and a place to see a movie and then I have to pipe in and ruin it with “but it’s based on a book and I haven’t read it yet”.  That’s me the girl who has to read what the author actually intended before Hollywood steps in and wipes it’s greedy Americana picture perfect postcard feet all over it.  I like to know while I am watching that the love story woven within was made up and never part of the true and intended story.  I like to know that they cut out important philisophical points to make it easier for the masses to understand.  And I like to know that above all else unlike most people in the theater seated around me that it actually was a book first.  You know before I read the “based on” line that appears before me once the picture has begun.

The point of this short rant  is that I am dying to see the movie A Scanner Darkly recently released.  I have  a need to see anything that has Richard Linklater involved.  But of course I have to read the book by Philip K. Dick first.  I am right now about halfway through and so far I love it and am hoping that I am not to be disappointed come Sunday.In the book in a passage I just completed a drugged out law sidestepping individual poses a question that at first I found amusing and then I actually pondered.  Religion aside it’s an interesting question.  “Do you think,…that when we die and appear before God on Judgement Day, that our sins will be listed in chronological order or in order of severity, which could be ascending or descending, or alphabetically?”  Well what do you think?

Oh yeah and check out the book… A Scanner Darkly

Reflection…

Recently while reading the introduction of a book there was a question posed.  I have been wrapping my mind around this question for a couple of days now and thought it worth asking.  “Sunlight on a canal is reflected up through a window onto the ceiling, then from the ceiling onto a vase, or a silver bowl.  Which is the real sunlight?  Which is the real reflection?”

Seems like a simple answer but is it?

Why can’t I finish…

I am a reader a huge reader.  I am sure that one day you will happen upon the entries here and see recommendations, reviews and links to favorite reads.  But today I am stuck.  I have been attempting to finish several books that I started all of which I still have an interest in and yet I can’t seem to complete one of them let alone all of them.  So to this I pose the question why when you have a list of “Can’t Wait to Reads”  can you not finish what you have already begun?  Even if they were on your can’t wait to read list in the past.