Thursday, May 9, 2002

To say nothing of the blog…

BOOK 'EM: I shuffled a few things on my reading pile and tore into Chip Kidd's The Cheese Monkeys, a delightful (and physically beautiful) comic novel following a rudderless student through two semesters of art school in the 1950s. Now I'm nearly finished with Connie Willis' thoroughly enjoyable time-travel-mystery-comedy To Say Nothing of the Dog, the first historically speculative sci-fi I've really devoured since Simon Hawke's Time Wars series. (Literati will note Willis' title is derived from the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's century-old classic account of Victorian England, Three Men in a Boat.)

Supplemental: The ever-charming Anita Rowland posted some great notes on the historical and literary allusions in To Say Nothing of the Dog in the "Reading and Writing" forum at Bad Hair Days. Good stuff!

Both of my latest reads, I hasten to mention, were sent along as gifts from my wishlist by visitors to The BradLands. I am very, very grateful for the hours of diversion and enjoyment. Thank you.