the problem is clearly his rather than hers

Or the second husband is a big old perv.

I also enjoyed Curious Incident a lot. I listened to it on tape, actually, and the narrator did a fabulous job with Christopher's voice.

I stopped by the Fall Festival in a nearby small town today, just as they were closing up (at 2pm!) and got 4 books for $2 at the Friends of the Library's table: Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff, Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (love her), Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, and Norton's Anthology of English Literature (4th ed.)! Plus, cider doughnuts. I was quite pleased.

I thought it was the pubic hair that flipped him out.

[insert tacky, tasteless Michael Jackson joke here]

Or the second husband is a big old perv.

She had to be examined by medical doctors in order to prove virginity for the annulment; none of the doctors reported anything out of the way.

Here's a site that does book recommendations: [link]

You don't have to sign up to get a rec, but if you do you can add to their database and thus improve the recommendations. Otherwise, just enter an author/title of a book you like.

There's a sequel to "Wicked" that just came out. Title: Son of a Witch.

So the DH is reading The Sexual Life of Catherine M. and occasionally sharing bits of it with me. The blurbs all say it's erotic, which appears to be untrue, but several passages have gotten lodged in my brain.

Including "I masturbate with the punctuality of a civil servant."

Since she's French, I can only assume this means she starts late, knocks off early, never achieves orgasm, and expects the government to pay her as if she had.

I read The Sexual Life of Catherine M. a while ago. Ones hot buttons vary and all that, but I found it had the least erotic orgies I'd ever read. Heck, the LFN stuff being gleefully (and rightfully) mocked in the fanfic thread is sexier. At least you get the sense that the LFN "author" might find her sex scenes hot, and I don't really get that from TSLoCM.

Say, anybody read "Ilium" by Dan Simmons? I am enjoying the spectacle of Greek gods who have recreated the Trojan War, plus it has made me long to access the Cliff's Notes of "The Tempest" for a memory refresher on what was the dealio with all that. I'm sure readers with solid backgrounds in those literary classics would be all over the references going on. I am having big fun with this one.

I was waiting for it to come out in paperback, and then it kind of dropped off my radar. How does it compare to the Hyperion books? (Which I lovelovelove.)