Hosting my kid’s birthday party yesterday answering a friend’s question, “so how do you know all of these kids?”
“Well that kid is so and so, they went to pre-school together. And that kid is so and so, they are in TK together. That kid in the red shirt is, ah, jeeze, a friend’s kid who we see all the time but I’m completely blanking on their name"
She says, “Yeah, that’s so and so.”
I say, "right, I forgot.”
Then I realize I’m talking to the kid in the red shirt’s mom.
o/ to whoever left an entire box of http://www.totalgrantsolution.org mugs on the sidewalk by my place today. my first name is Grant so I grabbed two of them. the saul bass lookin’ design and generic company name are perfect
guy next to me on bart is reading the last few pages of The Road between civic center and the mission, brutal
It’s all in the second person, which i got used to but, ugh
it’ll probably make an OK movie
it reminded me a lot of Jeff Noon who I enjoy more for this kind of thing
Being set in and about Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka politics was really neat
it’s pretty brutal in some places, which I don’t get down with
the twist was annoying
the last 20 pages were not needed
21st book of the year: “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, by Shehan Karunatilaka
A friend posted that they’d just read a book that they think might be the best book they’d ever read, and it was this one. 4, 3, 2, 1 was listed for a Booker and this one won the prize? OK, I’ll try it.
I really wanted to like it more than I did, and the second act really flows well, but I had a hard time finishing it, today, finally. It’s right up my alley in lots of ways. v0v
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57224204-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida
The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler,…Goodreads
