It took a while to finish reading The Mother Tongue and I skipped a few parts as I've read the book quite a few times. But it make me feel better. Then I got word that Little Brother by Cory Doctorow was ready for me at the library. I started reading it immediately and finished it within a couple of days. It's technically "young adult" but it worked just fine for this 40-something year old. It's a near-future story about teenage hackers, a terrorist attack on San Francisco and revolution. It's quite inspiring to me not to just let the government continue to erode our freedoms now. But I'm also quite lame at computer stuff so there would be a steep learning curve to try and know a fraction of what these kids know. It's a great read, a real page turner.
(Also waiting for me at the library that day was The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, which I started to read and just couldn't get into so I returned it.)
Since finishing Little Brother, I also picked up Lewis Black's Me of Little Faith again. I had listened to him on a few radio interviews (podcasts) about his book and it made me want to continue reading. Mr. Black lost his brother to cancer about ten years ago and the way he talks about him somehow comforts me, thinking about how I might feel ten years in the future and thinking about Jen. The book is also funny and sincere about how he feels about religion. I was surprised to find that he is not a raging atheist (which would be fine with me, Bill Maher gives much food for thought in his position as such) and has had some experiences he can't explain that focus on the energies we may or may not leave behind. I'm about 3/4 of the way through and am enjoying it very much.
And after starting a new job last week, a job I'm grateful for but am not relishing by any means, I went for another comfort book English Creek by Ivan Doig. My brother in law introduced me to this book in college and I read it a lot. I just love it. So I'm back to the McCaskill clan in Montana for a while. Easing into peaceful sleep every night after work.
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