Sunday

I finished Sarah Vowell today. I really like her even though we may be polar opposites. I enjoy her best when she is talking about history and not so much about her family, but this book as a bunch of both.

The thing I love most about the goth club is how passive it is. Hardly anyone talks to anyone else. It is free of the normal social pressures to smile and interact and appear content. There's nothing of that getting-to-know-you pick up line crap. In fact, the mood in antithetical to pickups; it's more like stay away. No one cares if you dance. No one cares if you don't. As someone who often dreads strangers, the antisocial nature of this social situation makes me feel communal and part of something-one of us. Like, hey, I hate talking to you too! The mutual disgust is completely liberating.- Take the Cannoli- Sarah Vowell.

I am also on page 115 of The Italian Secretary. Let me just say, I loved The Alienist. I even liked Angel of Darkness a lot. I love Sherlock Holmes too. So why, oh why, do I not love this book? I am not ready to say that I don't like it, yet. I will just say it is slow moving and not very satisfying.

I haven't been reading as much as planned because I have had a very festive week with my boyfriends graduation and my birthday, but this week I will speed things up.

Due to the slow as molasses Caleb Carr book, I am adding 2 more books today to spice up my life a bit.

Book Project
Book 13- Philosophy for Beginners- Richard Osborne p.184
Book 14- Stuart: A Life Backwards- Alexander Masters p. 299

It is my birthday. I am 31. Ouch.