I ate half a pound of chocolate-covered raisins last night – I was reading Siri Hustvedt’s excellent What I Loved and chewing my nails and bloodying my cuticles. I decided chewing raisins was preferable to rendering my fingertips useless. But that many raisins? Regardless of whether they are coated in chocolate or not? Equals severe heartburn and tummy distress. I am just recovering, after power-napping for the past twenty minutes underneath the laundry piles (where it’s warm) on my bed. Additionally, the fourteen pounds I have lost this pregnancy are going to pack right back on with a vengeance if I continue eating chocolate-covered anything in this manner. And we do NOT want that. At least I don’t. What I do want is to read Hustvedt’s other books now. And since I took care of all the important errands on Saturday, like renewing my library card, I think I’ll scoot over to the website and request them right now.
I am concurrently reading Zoe Heller’s What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scanda which is ok – I am sort of waiting for it to pick up; and Haven Kimmel’s The Solace of Leaving Early, which is so far just as interesting and engrossing as her other books. I have a chapter or two left in Terra Incognita, which I enjoyed very much but feel like I have been reading FORever.
Next up: a novel I picked up because (I can’t believe I am going to admit this) I liked the cover: Justin Evans’s A Good and Happy Child. I am hoping it is not just going to be a throwaway thriller. But check out those demons – don’t they bode well?
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* Pazuzu, in "The Exorcist"
8 comments:
All e coli aside, I think you have to start watching those binges...what if your water breaks right after you eat
a half a pound of chocolate covered raisins?
Am I the only one thinking this way?
I read Notes on a Scandal as a very very black comedy; the movie version did not see it that way at all. I wonder if I'm the only one who saw it that way . . .
I loved What I was until about 3/4 of the way through.
Partial to chocolate covered sultanas (smaller than raisins, therefore probably even worse for me as the choc-fruit ratio is larger, or is it smaller?)
Those demons scare me.
Notes on A...never did pick up....
I imagine chocolate-covered raisins would wash any nasty taste out of your mouth...
I've considered picking that book up many times because I like the cover.
Did you actually judge a book by its cover??
-J.
I liked A Good and Happy Child.
As for the back yard, look at it this way- at least you don't have to mow.
I read A Good and Happy Child last month. Creepy and cool, it's sort of The Exorcist Lite. It's not nearly as violent or scary, but it's immediately engrossing and both a fun and troubling read.
I won't say it tempted me to sleep with the light on, but it did make me think about some things I hadn't considered in a long time.
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