Since my last post was all about keeping my energy consumption low, I think it's appropriate to start up my posting again with a bit of an energy complaint. There is some numbnut at Walgreens who goes out every morning at 7 a.m. (I know because I'm standing at the bus stop at that hour) and starts up his obnoxious leaf blower. Now, it's not just annoying because of the hour, and because it's a mostly pointless endeavor, but these days he's out there making a ruckus when it's RAINING! He can't possibly be accomplishing anything - everything is plastered to the ground! It's just noise for noise's sake.
At least I'm back to reading with some sort of regularity. For so long I was reading almost nothing but newspapers and the economist. I ended up with $11.50 in fines at the library (largely for books I didn't read), and my list was looking really pathetic. Almost no books read all summer!
Part of the problem was what I was reading. It just hasn't been a good summer for books for me. Not since Cat's Cradle in the spring, really. So I just got a Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (not his best, I have to admit), but it was just good enough to get me back to normal. That's especially good since my last novel for fun was The Countess of Dellwyn by Henry Fielding's not-so-talented sister Sarah. The first chapter was fantastic. And then it sucked. For ... four ... whole ... books. At least it was only two hundred pages of yuck, and I plowed through to make way for Murakami.
Now I can start Tristram Shandy, which was available from the library in a very handy purse-sized edition from the '50s. It's 600 pages, but they should be fun pages, and the tissue-like pages are light enough to make it on the bus every day. If only I could bring myself to hack War and Peace into little pieces - I love what I've read so far, but I just can't stand carrying it around. The first 100 pages nearly threw my back out! What I wouldn't give for an original serialized version in a magazine . . . maybe the Economist. And then all would be perfect!
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