It's been a busy week, which explains the lack of blog posts, but I'll attempt to catch up a little bit here.
The book tower is finally one book shorter, as I finished reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. The memoir started and ended strong, but I was a little bored in the middle. When Burroughs wasn't trying to shock, I enjoyed his writing, but much of the book was mired in redundant descriptions of deprivation and underage sodomy. A chapter or two on these subjects would have been sufficient, but they reappeared ad nauseum. I'm looking forward to seeing the film version, however, as there was enough entertainment value in the book to make a pretty good movie. We'll see...
And speaking of ad nauseum, I listened to Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope over and over this week. Her music is like candy-coated crack. Once you start, you just can't stop. At first, I found her a little annoying, but her unique style is catchy and it grew on me like a fungus. In hindsight, I would have included her album in my Best of 2006 post, but I didn't get her CD until last weekend.
Back to my Book Tower: Check out The Bat Segundo Show's interview with Richard Ford (MP3) who has three novels on my to-read list.
Oh, I almost forgot. Leah and I saw a bald eagle yesterday. He was just hanging out in a tree in our neighbor's yard, and then a red-tailed hawk chased him off. Very odd.
Which leads me back to Regina Spektor, who is a bid odd, but endearing. I found a couple videos of her playing live and here they are (despite the first video being wobbly and blurry, it's good, and the second one ain't half bad either).
And, lastly, check out my Google Reader Share, as I linked to a bunch of cool stuff this week.
The book tower is finally one book shorter, as I finished reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. The memoir started and ended strong, but I was a little bored in the middle. When Burroughs wasn't trying to shock, I enjoyed his writing, but much of the book was mired in redundant descriptions of deprivation and underage sodomy. A chapter or two on these subjects would have been sufficient, but they reappeared ad nauseum. I'm looking forward to seeing the film version, however, as there was enough entertainment value in the book to make a pretty good movie. We'll see...
And speaking of ad nauseum, I listened to Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope over and over this week. Her music is like candy-coated crack. Once you start, you just can't stop. At first, I found her a little annoying, but her unique style is catchy and it grew on me like a fungus. In hindsight, I would have included her album in my Best of 2006 post, but I didn't get her CD until last weekend.
Back to my Book Tower: Check out The Bat Segundo Show's interview with Richard Ford (MP3) who has three novels on my to-read list.
Oh, I almost forgot. Leah and I saw a bald eagle yesterday. He was just hanging out in a tree in our neighbor's yard, and then a red-tailed hawk chased him off. Very odd.
Which leads me back to Regina Spektor, who is a bid odd, but endearing. I found a couple videos of her playing live and here they are (despite the first video being wobbly and blurry, it's good, and the second one ain't half bad either).
And, lastly, check out my Google Reader Share, as I linked to a bunch of cool stuff this week.
