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Right Girl on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 |
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I’ve been happily tucked up in farm country, trying to keep Bug and I warm in a 130 year old farmhouse. It’s 16 Deg F right now, so I’m tucked up in the narrow wooden bed with Bug, passing the time with a few thick novels that I picked up before Christmas.
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
is billed as a 9/11 allegory. A tightrope walker sets up a wire between the World Trade Towers in 1974, before they were even complete. As his story plays out above the city, others are playing out below. An Irish missionary. Bronx prostitutes. Grieving mothers who lost their sons to Vietnam. I tore through it in two days. It’s so well written, you’ll be able to actually see the characters moving before you.
I also picked up The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
and The Help Deluxe Edition
because I’ve been remiss in not reading them. Starting Dragon Tattoo this evening.
Did Santa leave any books under your tree?
Political Endorsement
I’m too tired to read after 8+ hours at my sucky job every day. Its all I can do to wash the dishes, do the laundry, vacuum the house…ugh! I need all my spare time for my FANTASY life where I kill people for being left-handed, having bleu eyes or being named “Cindy” (left-handed bleu-eyed bitches named Cindy are evil). I don’t like being cut off in traffic either so naturally I have the power to make people shit their pants at my pleasure for offending me. The dragon tattoo thing sounds kind of hot though. Good luck with your reading and Happy New Year!!!
I see a left-handed asshole driving a red Chevy Volt in the next lane and need to take care of bizniss. I hope he has some wet wipes handy since I don’t kill them while they are driving.
Stay safe Wendy, do not despair, Happy New Year!
Remember ….You can BE whatever you “will to be”
Joe Molnar
Ah Pauly Jr, you better not come after me. As a red haired, left-handed Scottish immigrant with a degree in Criminology. My reading of late has been about serial killers and sociopaths – so I’ll know when you are coming after THIS redhead!
Recommended books:
The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout (very compelling reading indeed)
The Evil That Men Do, by Roy Hazelwood (don’t read it alone)
Without Conscience, by Robert hare (want to understand what makes serial killers tick?)
There is also a disturbing correlation between left-handedness and pedophilia (not guilty).
But, I will be spending my year suing ‘Just For Men’ as they do not cater to redheads; and fighting for the civil rights of lefties everywhere who have the burden of living in a world designed for right-handed people.