Not A Pink Girl
“Healthy” debate? Impossible.
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The older I get, the less possible it is for me to be “friends” with anyone who is a reactionary right-wing zealot. I don’t get the “healthy debate” thing. The “healthy” part goes right out the window when Republicans start using words like “abomination” & “anti-family” & “unnatural.”
I am Catholic & I think Jesus is a wonderful person to emulate. These crazy anti-choice automatons that pretend to be Christian or Catholic do no speak for me & all Catholics are not like them. They espouse hate & violence against anyone who does not act & speak like them.
Note I used the word “act.” So many of these haters live in fear: of themselves, of their true sexuality, of “The Bad Guys,” of foreign speakers, the list goes on.
Oprah, you’re never gonna live this one down.
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Just because it’s “free” doesn’t mean you should eat it. If Oprah Winfrey wanted controversy, she’s got it now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlxcj8o9dg
Tags: tainted meat, trans-fats, saturated fat, obesity, corporate stooge, MSG, addictive foods, fast food
Absolute Friends by John le Carre
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Absolute Friends by John le Carré
My review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
I love John le Carre. His books Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Our Game, Smiley’s People & The Night Manager are some of my all-time favorite reads. But Absolute Friends wasn’t up to his (admittedly high) standard. It was lugubrious until about the last 2 chapters of the book & I pretty much slogged through it. The characters weren’t likable (with the exception maybe of his Turkish significant-other & her delightful pre-teen son, about which there was precious little in the plot).
Book review: Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery by Stephanie Barron
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery by Stephanie Barron
My review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
I would give this 2 1/2 stars I think. It was a slog. I adore Jane Austen. This book was fun & interesting because Jane Austen was the protagonist. I found the way Ms. Barron wrote the book to be distracting (too many “of a sudden”s & “I was all astonishment”s). I thought it was neat that she was trying to use colloquialisms of Jane Austen’s day, but sometimes I found this device to be self-conscious. This is Ms. Barron’s first book in the “Jane Austen” series, so perhaps things smooth out with the succeeding novels. It just didn’t catch my interest. I had to force myself to sit down & read a chapter or two at a sitting.
