60 Lbs. of Footwear

Bitter kittens, unborn fauns, minions--I haven't read ANY of the books for the past couple of months, although I'm working on The Lincoln Lawyer and feel confident that I'll actually finish it. I've also blown off the September book for the P-Town Library Book Group--The Yiddish Policemens' Union, which I tolerated with gritted teeth for 80 pages and then said, "The hell with it..." (of course, I said this in Yiddish!!!) and threw it across the room. Michael Chabon is a brilliant stylist and his use of metaphors/similes (I'm using both terms because I honestly don't know the difference between them!) is unparalled but below that shiny surface, there needs to be a story that's interesting and there just wasn't one there as far as I was concerned. So even more chances that I'll read at least one of our summer books in the next week or so.

I'm thoroughly enjoying PR, Season 8, but don't have much to comment on. Between Brenda, Bethie, Ann and Tim and TLo, just about everything that needs to be said about the Mean Girls and the Sweet Nerds has been placed under a fine microscope and analyzed to death. And then, even if none of you have been coerced into watching Mad Men, I am INTENSELY devoted to it and watching each episode and then trolling the blogs (TLo now posts nearly every day on this show--the plots, the themes, the--yes--metaphors and similes, the clothes, the props)--I am living half of the time in 2010 and the other half in 1965. How can I get at least one of you interested in this show so I can have a Mad Men pal I actually know, not some cyber acquaintances whose opinions are not as meaningful to me as those of my dear friends, y'all!

See the method to my madness? I've posted to the blog but haven't read either of the two (or four) books on the table. Really, posting is almost as good as actually reading a book, am I right or not? Well, not but still...give me a "C" for effort.

I do have Laura Bennett's book in audio form on my Kindle and see a nice, lazy weekend ahead, listening to her opinions (she narrates her own book) on matters fashionable and maternal, lounging in my favorite chair and stitching on my new needlepoint frame, "the last needlepoint frame you'll ever need" per the brochure I received and I think it may be true. Brenda, I see one in your future.

All in all, good times!!!!