A Momentary Taste of Being

I'm not certain if I will launch seriously into this book, but these two moments only a little apart are amusing. from The Banquet Bug Geling Yan He tries to describe the texture of the delicate flesh, the subtle contact between the meat and this palate and tongue, the slippery sensation it gives when it passes the entrance of the throat, leaving the oral organs in such wonder. But he has no vocabulary for it. Putting together his education with hers, they can barely write a decent letter to their parents without checking a dictionary. **** A neighbor woman yells outside the plastic curtain, asking what's taking them so long and whether they shower hair by hair.  Laughing Dan Dong yells back that he has twelve toe to scour.

Revolutionary Road reviewed. Frankly sounds like a depressing mess--no wonder I was never able to get through it.  However, I was able to enjoy this perceptive review.  And its companion piece.

Author explains The Last Ringbearer

"Daisies"

A lovely poem by Andrew Young

See Turkeys!  Read Yeats!

Two autumnal poems about leaves

and comes to much the same conclusions as I did, about What Good is God at least.  There are several of Yancey's books that still appeal after many years of separation.  However, some don't wear well (with the same person) over time.  I've found that I've been able to reread only a couple with any significant insight, remarkable among them Soul Survivor --biographies of 13 people who helped to form Yancey's faith.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe reviewed

A commentary and consideration of one of Yeats's Masterpeices--"The Second Coming"

Poem of the Week, by W.B. Yeats, "The Sorrow of Love" Not the poem I would have chosen, even from the early work.  But a beautiful poem, beautifully wrought, with a low admittance barrier.  It's a nice way to become acquainted with Yeats if you were not already.