Sunday, January 07, 2007

Let Me Wake From This Nightmare

Tomorrow! Work! I return to...work!!!!! How can such evil be allowed to stalk this great land of the free? Why can't our government declare a "War on Work?" How could such a sensitive, poetic soul as myself be required to...labor for my bread? What part of lazy don't my employers understand?

Just to point out, returning to work may mean I won't be posting comments as frequently as I've been doing. I'll still keep up my posting here but may not be able to visit and comment as frequently on all the great blogs that I've found over the past few weeks. (Some folks are saying, "Thank...a deity of some sort.")

And now, since this is supposed to be a writing/reading related blog, let's see: My highest recommended novels for 2006 (although not necessarily written in 06) were: The Swords of Night and Day by David Gemmell, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Drive by James Sallis. The best book on writing that I read in 2006 was Orson Scott Card's Characters and Viewpoint, although Kate Wilhelm's Storyteller earns an honorable mention. My favorite non-fiction book was Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer, but I also greatly enjoyed Carl Zimmer’s Parasite Rex and Jonathan Weiner’s The Beak of the Finch. That’s a lot of good reading for 06. I guess it was a pretty good year after all.

2 comments:

Sidney said...

I feel your pain, dude. I worked half a day Friday but tomorrow it's the full monty tomorrow - of course at home I've managed to hurt my ankle and contract the plague, so maybe I'm better off at my day job.

RK Sterling said...

I'm a little late here with the tea and sympathy, but I do feel for you. Just found your blog via Clifford via Stewart, and look! Sidney's here too!

Wonderfully small the World Wide Web. Nice site. :)