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and a movie and a book
Oct. 17th, 2012 12:29 pmI’m still spamming y’all, because I was boy-free last weekend, and that meant I went to the movies and actually finished a book.
I took myself to see Argo, which I enjoyed enormously and recommend to all.
( more about Argo, no particular spoilers )
I also finished Kevin Powers’s The Yellow Birds, a first novel (the author isn’t 30 yet) about the Iraq war that’s been getting a lot of press. Seriously, you’d think the book would collapse under its accolades: Tom Wolfe, Ann Patchett and Colm Toibin all blurb it across the front cover, and there's more on the back. It's a slim volume!
But the book pretty much holds up to its praise.
( more about the novel, no real spoilers )
Still, a really amazing achievement, especially when you consider Powers came back from Iraq without a college degree, went through college on the GI Bill and then on to an MFA in poetry and then this novel, in about five years.
Besides, even the Iceman is talking about PTSD these days, so there you go.
I took myself to see Argo, which I enjoyed enormously and recommend to all.
( more about Argo, no particular spoilers )
I also finished Kevin Powers’s The Yellow Birds, a first novel (the author isn’t 30 yet) about the Iraq war that’s been getting a lot of press. Seriously, you’d think the book would collapse under its accolades: Tom Wolfe, Ann Patchett and Colm Toibin all blurb it across the front cover, and there's more on the back. It's a slim volume!
But the book pretty much holds up to its praise.
( more about the novel, no real spoilers )
Still, a really amazing achievement, especially when you consider Powers came back from Iraq without a college degree, went through college on the GI Bill and then on to an MFA in poetry and then this novel, in about five years.
Besides, even the Iceman is talking about PTSD these days, so there you go.
