Fun movie! So much good food, too 
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I’ve enjoyed all his books. Fun and good escapism.
I’m almost finished with new Galbraith mystery and my god she needs an editor. Just way too many characters, plot lines and will they won’t they neverending relationship stuff…
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I’m reading The Humans by Matt Haig and loving it. It’s funny, thoughtful, poignant, and easy to read.
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I was a school librarian during the Harry Potter era, and I used to call her She Who Must Not be Edited. The books just kept getting longer and longer, filled with unnecessary stuff. The Galbraith mysteries are the same, but I still read them. 
I’m about a third through the latest.
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I’m at the last part and still not 100% sure who is who. Just way too many characters (and it’s excessively dark). I have enjoyed her dropping in characters from past books but it should have been at least 25% to 30% edited down. I guess she gets to do what she wants.
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I was a huge fan of the early Robert Jordan “Wheel of Time” books. I feel your pain.
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Another lovely and entertaining essay.
I read a sci-fi story when I was very young in which aliens assumed the flashy, adorned humans were the males, because that’s the way the rest of earth’s creatures present.
I’d thought I was done with Ian McEwan, after reading several books and nearly throwing Atonement across the room, but the reviews for the new one, What Can We Know, were good. I put a library hold on it, about 75th on the list, but somehow it arrived late last week. It is captivating. I hope the ending doesn’t screw it up (see Atonement, above).
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ThriftBooks sends me emails suggesting new authors considering what I’ve purchased in the past. The latest was Chevy Stevens. Never heard of her. Ran a search on HO and no mention here. Did a little research and against my better judgment I decided to start out with her first book, Still Missing . About an 1/8 of the way in I closed the book up and that was the end of that. Talk about creepy. YMMV.
Just caught up on a month’s worth of The New Yorker.
There seems to be a disconnect between the publisher, the post office and me. Neither TNY or PO knows where the missing issues have gone. Frustrating, I’d rather read the paper copy than on the tablet.
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OMG thx for reminding me of the pile of FIVE months worth of NYers on my reading table.
Perhaps one of the most depressing things I’ve read in a while, and there’s certainly no shortage of depressing things to read these days:
Just finished new Michael Connelly book, The Proving Ground, which I found really interesting and a bit alarming.
Going to start on Susan Orleans memoir today. She wrote one of my favorite books-The Library Book.
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I’m A little more than halfway through James by Percival Everett. A retelling of Huckleberry Finn (which I haven’t read) from Jim’s perspective. Well deserving of all its accolades! Really good.
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You really should read Huckleberry Finn! … with an open mind. I still haven’t finished the biography of Mark Twain … it’s way too detailed … I’m having to skim some. He was born in Missouri, a borderline slave holding state … he was a Confederate soldier for 2 weeks, left to go to SF and Nevada. He was evolving. When he was 33 he married the love of his life, a wealthy 23 year old from Hartford. They were so in love and devoted to each other. He turned into a liberal Yankee. He was friends with President Grant and helped him publish 2 books (at the time Grant was in the last stages of throat cancer). I was surprised that Huck Finn was written later in his life.
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I liked this less by the end. One character writes the other a list of 70+ life lessons that I found cheesy and a bit lazy from a storytelling perspective.
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It was hard to keep in mind that the Republican Party back then was a completely different animal than the present day Republican Party.
The movie Gangs of New York was very educational for me. I think high school students could get a lot out of seeing movies like this … much better than reading and memorizing boring textbooks.
This was a great article in the NYer on Twain.
PS: I read and reread The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn many times as a kid. It’s a classic.
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