Murder & Mystery

I finished Til Death Do Us part edited by Harlan Coben. Not all of the stories were about marriage, which I had assumed. As with any anthology, it was hit and miss. But there were a lot of hits.

Also, I watched the "Snakes on a Plane" gag reel. Watching Flex Alexander and Keenan Thompson ad-lib with the male flight attendant(Bruce James AKA Christian Bale's imperfect clone) reacting and laughing was better than the movie itself.

Identity Issues

I read Not A Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland and American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang.

I didn't intend to read them one after another. It just ended up that way. Of the two, American Born Chinese is better. Mind you I am biased in favor of comics and graphic novels, but it ties personal struggles in with mythology, so I was made to love it.

Kurt

On Tuesday I finished reading Hotel Babylonby Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous. I didn't think it was that great or funny, but it was enough of a hit in the UK to spawn a BBC series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/hotelbabylon/

In other, sadder news Kurt Vonnegurt has died. So, I guess I should actually read the Slaughter House V book in on my bookcase.

I just noticed that I have a lot of books I never finished reading on my bookcase.

Cane River

I finished reading Cane River by Lalita Tademy this week. I think it might me the best book I've read all year. At first I scoffed at it a little because it was a Oprah's Book Club pick, but it's really good and not her usual choice of it's-deep-because-it's depressing-and-obtuse. While I'm not going to run out and buy the positive-thinking hokum of The Secret, Oprah's next pick is The Road by Cormac McCarthy and I was planning to getting around to reading it anyways....