Well, got stuck on a train going home from work (suspicious package on the tracks at Jamaica. Everything shut down). Gave me plenty of time to finish up the last Harry Potter book!
I can't believe that's it for the series. What a fun ride. Don't worry, I won't say anything about what happens!
Just finished reading this book. The last quarter of the story ripped my heart out. Highly highly recommended.
This review of the book states it best:
“If you are prepared to take a hard punch in your gut, and like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then you've come to the right place. If you can't handle the violence of the regret it will awaken in you, or the agony of remembering wanting someone more than you wanted anything in your life, or the exquisite suffering that comes with the gain, and loss, of something that neared perfect understanding, then don't read this book. Ditto if you like your literature censored. Otherwise, open the cover and let Aciman pull the pin from the grenade.”
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780374299217&itm=1
Amazon has the new Harry Potter as a pre-order on their splash page.
Exciting!
Martin Nodell, the creator of one of my favorite superheros, died last Saturday at a nursing home in Wisconsin. His character, Green Lantern (Alan Scott), started in the 1940 and has gone through many revivals. Of course, the version of Green Lantern I grew up with was Hal Jordon, who came on to the scene much later (thank you). Thanks for making childhood so much fun, Martin!
La Magnifica just told me that DC Comics is bringing back an old character with a new "twist": Batwoman.
Only this time, she's going to be "a Buxom Lipstick Lesbian".
Well that sounds fun!
I'm reading a new book, "The Lexicon of Stupidity", which, somewhat obviously, is a compilation regarding the subject of stupidity.
Yes, I realize I used the word in defining the word. But that's just the point. As the authors Ross and Katherine Petras note, "... the key aspect of stupidity is being stupid or acting stupid or, for that matter, thinking stupid(ly). Indeed the salient feature of the definition is the repetition of the word stupid..."
That said, I am going to periodically post the stupidest of the stupid.
On aging:
"No, 23 is old. It's almost 25, which is, like, almost mid-twenties." -Jessica Simpson
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