Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
Unsentimental
Do you want to know what to read if you’re dying to get the taste of The Lovely Bones out of your mouth? (Um. What an unfortunate image.) Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude, that’s what. It’s a thoroughly unsentimental look at childhood and it’s refreshing as hell after that awful Bones.
I’ll write more when I finish . . . Still barely 1/4 of the way through . . .
I opened my mouth and said something stupid today at work. I do this with fair regularity, it seems. This time I apologized at once, did some back pedaling, tried to make good. I’m already in minor hot water over another indiscretion. Hopefully this one won’t come back to haunt me.
Good thing I’m not a school teacher. Who knows what kind of trouble I’d make for myself.
D.
Motherless Brooklyn is really good too.
I’m feeling your pain for the bigmouthitis incident. It has happened to me way too many times when I should have known better. I can’t understand why I can be so self destructive? Any thoughts?
P.S. Saw this on FB just now, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
Good to remember.
My excuse is that as a doctor, people are paying for me to talk to them. (Among other things.) Around these parts, doctors of few words are regarded with as much scorn as doctors you can’t understand. My problem is, I don’t always think before I speak.
Motherless Brooklyn is next. I think I intended to read that one first, but at the time, it wasn’t available for my Nook.
Just talking about this issue may help me to solve my problem. You will love Motherless Brooklyn.