Let's Read
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 3:36PM What say we start a wannabe book club? Or something. Anybody interested? We don't have to be all serious about it or anything. In fact, maybe calling it a book club sends out the wrong vibe anyway...how about I just say, causally and with no sense of obligation at all, that Margene's Blog is now open for any and all literary discussion that anyone wants to start, lead, or participate in. I totally need to read more. I watch way too much TV. I don't know why that's so obvious to me now but it totally is. I mean, I love it, and that kinda scares me. Bill and Barb have been on a big reading kick the past month or so. It started with Bill ? again with the Lincoln stories ? and he's sucked her in. He's onto a book about the manhunt for the guy that killed Lincoln and Barb's catching up, reading the 12-inch-thick book Bill read before about Honest Abe while he was president. I'm telling you, this house is now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. First Bill, but now the Duo is lugging these huge books around and telling little anecdotes they read during lunch or waiting at the pharmacy or, heck, at a stoplight. They're obsessed. It can get kind of annoying, but I gotta say, I'm pretty jealous. I don't think I'm gonna jump on the Lincoln train (two reasons: everyone's doing it; and, sadly, you kinda know the ending, so...) but I am envious of their enthusiasm1. I've taken to watching Seinfeld re-runs. Now, there's nothing wrong with that at all because it's probably the best show that's come on in my lifetime2, but it's a slippery slope. It's on at 10:00 and 10:30 on channel 13 and then it's on at 11:30 on channel 47. It's not that hard to kill that 11:00 to 11:30 time slot with a little local news, a little teeth brushing, a little channel surfing...maybe even a little magazine flipping, and BAM, it's 11:30 and I'm watching another re-run3. I'm pretty sure I could use that time more wisely. But on top of that, I wouldn't mind if I didn't associate reading with lying in bed, waiting to go to sleep. I haven't read sitting up since...a long time ago. I want to change that.
Do I want to read that book about the woman who gets a divorce or something and ends up going to Italy and then India in search of...all the stuff women in books go searching for? I definitely feel like that book's in my wheelhouse, but I've never investigated it. Anybody read that one? It was a big time seller, I know that, so it's gotta be at least sort of interesting, right? Maybe I'll pick that one and start in on it tonight. It has been written about a lot, so most of you guys have already knocked it out. As always, I'm behind the curve. But I'll try to do better. I'm gonna start. Anybody wanna start with me? Let's do it.
So...so long, Jerry, George Elaine, and Kramer. I'll be back, but, for now, I have to broaden my horizons. If the book is awful, let me know early, please. I guess I'll find out for myself, but I always like to know if I should pull the ripcord sooner rather than later. As always, I trust you, Internet. I don't know why, but I do.
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1Alright. I think I'm going crazy. The good news is, I have my topic for my next posting. The bad news is, every time I sit down to write, I start thinking, "I've written about this before." And I honestly can't remember. What's weird, too, though, is: I know I've written, or at least mentioned, that I always think I'm repeating myself. Should I see a doctor? I'm gonna do some thinking about this. I'll get back to you. At least it's giving me more material. But sorry for the repetition...if it's repetitive material.
2I love me some Cheers, too, of course! Remember when Seinfeld took over that time slot and everyone was like, "who's this uppity kid think he is?"
3Does Jerry make more money the more re-runs I watch? I wonder how all that stuff works.
Reader Comments (16)
It's an interesting read, and a primary source on what happened then. It is available on google books! Makes polygamy seem much less glamorous indeed.
I love to read. Have carpal tunnel really bad and am putting off surgery so hard backs are out of the question and always have to wait for the paperbacks.
I often read in bed as it helps me to sleep which i have a lifelong problem with.
My favorites are true crime/non fiction my first was helter skelter in 8th grade.
I read all the big cases that go to book. Favorite true crime author is
Anne Rule. She was the "friend" of Ted Bundy and has taught alot of police and other agencies how to profile serial killers. now I know that seems very very grim right? but my childhood was soooo awful and these guys always wanna whine about how they got the "bleep" beat out of them as kids well I got the "bleep" beat out of me and I turned out really great. my two brothers turned out as complete wastes of oxygen and space and threaten to kill me and my kids bi-annually for 20 years. Its a great way to learn about law and crime and how it affects community, how states differ on crime and punishment and what makes the killer act on the impulses that all of us have with in us. We all have a gift, called free will.. But almost all of us are able to not even get so far in anger as to think of killing anyone least of all serially.
I am still working on learning what it is that makes a childhood lead to death peanalty. wow, did i really just blab all that out?
love ya ,
destiny
i read all four of the twilight vampire books and loved them ever so much although written for highschoolers or young adults. my kids gave them to me as gifts i think to lighten me up. and they are enough to have me searching target stores for the next one to go paper back two times after the gift of the first two. hear the second movie is better than the first and for something completely fictional and all its not scary its a love story really with some
highschool hijinx and all that vampire stuff worked in .
HOWEVER, the movies seen after the book, they picked somereally bad actors for the charactors of her dad and his dad and bla bla bla.
bye bye margie
destiny