Reading

Back When We Were Grownups

Wild Child: Girlhoods from the counter culture

Pink Think

Reviving Ophelia

Yellowdog: I am always blown away by Martin Amis. I am sure some critic used the words virtuoso or tour de force about this book. He has some harsh things to say about us all, in a sardonic, painfully funny kind of way. Xan, the head-injured, revenge-obsessed main character, really is the most ordinary of men, I think. Sometimes everyone wants to inflict some pain. I wasn’t too pleased as the book devolved into a porn-story toward the end, although I got a kick out of the British-sounding porn star names: names like Sheila and Carla – instead of Jessica and Tawny. But he nailed (so to speak) the grim business of it all—I read that he did some “on-site” research in the San Fernando Valley, where all porn is apparently made. The trash journalist, Clint Smoker, was the greatest! Writers must love satirizing other writers.

Treason’s Harbour: ended on an uncertain note. Will Aubrey get a new ship, and who gave up their mission to the French? It is certainly the card cheat, whose name escapes me. Tom gave me the next two books for Mother’s Day, so I’m ready to go.

Me Without You

Prime Suspect 6

Widow of St. Pierre: worth it for the fabulous, saturated reds and yellows amid the mud and rawness of the sets – forgot to see where it was filmed, supposed to be Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, someplace in the north.