Wuthering Heights

We already talked about it.

Great book, I look forward to getting the movie.

Bright Minds, Poor Grades

Pretty much what it says. Here's the best quote that had me in tears:

Let me describe a typical situation where the parents decide to offer something to their child that they believe he wants: money. They decide to pay for grades. Any amount will do, but let us say they decide to pay $10 for every A, $5 for every B, $2 for every C, nothing for a D and fine him $10 for an F on the report card. Now, to be fair, they offer the same deal to the higher achieving sibling. At the end of the grading period, the high achieving sibling has broken the bank and the under achiever ends up owing the parents money.

Sound familiar? It still makes me laugh.

This book seems to hit the nail on the head; we'll see how it goes.

The 6th Target

Now, here's a perfect book; 394 pages of double space 14 pica print - man, I thought it was a first grade reader. Murder mystery set in SF - easy read, coupla days. The good news is there are six more of these in the series.

Absalom, Absalom

Wow, it was unreadable. I just don't get it; his sentences run forever, his paragraphs are literally pages long - he has multiple subjects within a sentence.

Even the plot was standard - grand dad comes from nothing, builds an empire and the kids are screwed up.

Somebody needs to explain to me why this guy is a great writer.

Truck a love story

This is the author of Population: 485. He's still in Wisconsin writing about his daily life. He's a pretty good writer, but uses "big words" as if he has something to prove.

Anyway, it took quite a while to read this one and I'm not sure why.