AND, I'm reading Literacy and Longing in LA which is, at times, irritating in the extreme.

It has a narrator who is an avid reader, but pretentiously so. And she makes fun of readers of sci fi or romances or bestsellers. And yet, this book? So far has proven to be exactly the kind of predictable romance that she decries. It's not terrible, just... off putting.

I should have gotten Bright Lights, Big Ass instead.

There, see? You do have stuff! And I was wondering about that book, so I'm glad to hear an opinion.

Vortex, does that mean you got the/a new job? Sorry if I missed it earlier - I skim pretty seriously in this thread.

no, it means that my condo will probably go to settlement in the next 30 days or so.

Again, Jesse, not bad. Just... pretentious without cause. When I'm done, I'll drop it in the mail to you if you want.

Eh. Right now all I want to read is Lee Child.

Who is Lee Child?

And K earwormed me with "The Wheels on the Bus" which is making me contemplate putting my head in the oven.

He writes this series of thrillers/mysteries about an ex-Army MP named Jack Reacher who finds himself in the craziest situations, but somehow it works. In the one I'm reading now, the Secret Service hired him (sort of) to help figure out who's trying to kill the Vice President-elect.

sounds entertaining! I wish all of my crazy situations would somehow workout.

Instead though? My crazy situations end up with me doing gobs of laundry, buying a chest deep freeze, and having a hospital grade breast pump from an anonymous person on an IV stand in my living room.

Totally entertaining. (Edit: NOT your current situations.) And somehow he always gets to have a fling in the midst of it all