- Lincoln Chafee, recently defeated Republican senator from Rhode Island, has essentially renounced his membership in the GOP: "When asked whether he felt that his loss may have helped the country by switching control of power in Congress, he replied: 'To be honest, yes.'"
- Senator-elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) is pretty awesome.
- Serves you right, fuckers. Hoist, meet petard.
- Life with Kirk Herbstreit isn't easy.
- Michigan's secondary loves chess. Seriously.
- I doubt that they're playing with this set.
- Invading Iraq may have had the unintended consequence of upending renovations to Michigan Stadium.
- This is the kind of thing that kills my nostalgia for the Midwest.
- Jeff Weiss loves The Hold Steady almost as much as I do.
- If I were more hip, I would have caught this (second entry): "How does a band this loose stay this tight? No idea, but every time we see them it’s like a casual visit from God, if God were a chubby thirties-ish glasses-wearing Twins fan with an inexplicable thing for Soul Asylum."
- Jaime at fishunderwater reviews Marish Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, a book that I liked too, but not as much as she does.
- Bookslut interviews the great Marjane Satrapi.
- Reflections on Amsterdam, the world's most perfect city.
- Don't go to law school.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Thursday link-or-rama: Something for everybody
They're not all exactly recent, but we haven't done this in awhile.
I didn't love it - I just didn't want to get into why on the interwebs, because I still think it's worth reading, but if I'd heard my hesitations about the book before I read it (from someone else, of course), it'd have colored my reading of the book.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Lincoln Chafee makes me proud to have lived in Rhode Island. First and last time for that sentiment.
ReplyDeleteYou wrote on your blog: "it is interesting and moving and well-written and just about everything that makes a book good. It isn't perfect, but I almost missed my subway stop half the mornings I was reading it."
ReplyDeleteUsually there are only about two books a year that get that kind of reaction from me. This year it was Never Let Me Go and the new Cormac McCarthy.
No, I understand that it looks like that... I'm conflicted about the book. I loved the middle as much as it seems. But the beginning was slow, and I have issues with the ending... not sure how major those issues are. [Done coopting comment space for my personal book club use.]
ReplyDeleteI was pretty ambivalent about it until the end. It wasn't until the end that everything wrapped up and made sense. I had major problems with how she assembled her secondary characters -- really, Blue was the only one I found persuasive. But at the end of the book I felt like these second-tier characters were sort of beside the point and that this was a story about Blue and books.
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