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Apr. 14th, 2007 08:50 pmBet Me, by Jennifer Crusie - is there anyone who doesn't love Jennifer Crusie? I think she's fabulous - a perfect fluffy book for when this day/week/month has been kicking your ass, and you just need to curl up on the couch with a good book that won't be a struggle. Especially if you're like me and have a Thing for Witty Banter. This is totally typical Crusie - which means slightly predictable, but a heck of a lotta fun along the way.
In other news, people should get a hold of the May 2007 issue of The Atlantic, which has a fascinating article on sexuality and sexual orientation in Saudi Arabia called "The Kingdom in the Closet". Really really good. (The same issue also has an article on internet-assisted group suicide in Japan, what role - if any - Bill Clinton might play in the 2008 election and a possible Clintonian White House, and a review by Caitlin Flanagan (which mostly did not leave me screaming like her writing usually does) of a book on abortion and a book on adoption that I recently read. This review has a couple of great lines: "A thousand arguments about the beginning of human life will never appeal to me as powerfully as a terrified pregnant girl desperate for a bit of compassion," and a riff on an Jerry Seinfeld joke about bloodstains, saying that only men would think that having bloodstains on you mean you've killed someone; whereas women know otherwise: "Bloodstains occur and recur in households because women spend a lot of their lives bleeding.") Your library probably has this issue - so go check it out.
In other news, we just discovered that a neighbor of ours is a Level 3 Sex Offender. That means dangerous and liable to re-offend. Lovely.
In other news, people should get a hold of the May 2007 issue of The Atlantic, which has a fascinating article on sexuality and sexual orientation in Saudi Arabia called "The Kingdom in the Closet". Really really good. (The same issue also has an article on internet-assisted group suicide in Japan, what role - if any - Bill Clinton might play in the 2008 election and a possible Clintonian White House, and a review by Caitlin Flanagan (which mostly did not leave me screaming like her writing usually does) of a book on abortion and a book on adoption that I recently read. This review has a couple of great lines: "A thousand arguments about the beginning of human life will never appeal to me as powerfully as a terrified pregnant girl desperate for a bit of compassion," and a riff on an Jerry Seinfeld joke about bloodstains, saying that only men would think that having bloodstains on you mean you've killed someone; whereas women know otherwise: "Bloodstains occur and recur in households because women spend a lot of their lives bleeding.") Your library probably has this issue - so go check it out.
In other news, we just discovered that a neighbor of ours is a Level 3 Sex Offender. That means dangerous and liable to re-offend. Lovely.
