Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which means the weekend will be very fun. Fun, fun, fun, fun.
It is chilly in the house. In the interests of conserving energy, we keep the thermostat down. Self walks around all the time in sweats, scarf, and furry socks.
Son took his GRE yesterday: apparently, now you can see how you scored, immediately after, and he got 1400. Happy happy joy joy! Self has no idea where son plans to apply to grad school, hubby hopes Stanford but self thinks it isn’t the school for him. She hopes University of Washington, as Seattle is a very cool city.
Story of the day is from One Story, lit mag which self realized (in a flash of insight, earlier this month) would never publish her. The story is called “Stag.” Once again it is set in some lonely Midwestern locale, where men are all like Cormac McCarthy protagonists. Setting very bleak, very rife with anomie, and that unique American angst.
Though it is cold outside, self will walk the li’l crits. In addition, she will see if she can find the following two books in the local Barnes & Noble:
- Helen Oyeyemi’s first novel, The Icarus Girl: According to the New York Times Book Review, this is about “the troubled daughter of a Nigerian mother and an English father . . . who develops a malevolent imaginary friend.” (Yes!)
- Chieh Chieng’s first novel, A Long Stay in a Distant Land which is described by NYTBR as “a generous family saga about an unlucky Cantonese-American clan from Orange County, Calif.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers, stay tuned.
Kanlaon 