Summer reading

7 16-grid Su Dokus
8 books
4 back episodes of CSI
4 back episodes of Without a Trace

I just wanted to share some of the books I've read. Not all of them have been good, but these 4 I can recommend. Frank McCourt's Teacher Man (if the author sounds familiar, he also wrote Angela's Ashes) is an autobrigraphy concerning his time spent as an English teacher in the NYC school system. It's a must-read for any one in eduction, and for me it's a confirmation that you don't have to be young when you start writing - Frank was 66 when he wrote his first novel. Next, I read Wicked (on which the new musical is based). It's interesting how the author fleshed out an entire world from the shell of the Wizard of Oz. Even the witche's name; Elphaba, is a tribute to Frank L. Baum, the author of of Oz. The novel is quite a dark analysis of the nature of evil, and it's hard for me to imagine it as a Broadway musical. My next recommendation it The Birth of Venus, a story of a woman in 1400's Florence, who becomes Michaelangelo's lover. It would be lovely to see the city to see if anything remains of 15th century Florence. Lastly, I've just finished The Devil wore Prada, which was not as good as I thought it would be. I thought there would be less suffering and more revenge. The heroine seemed to be a glutton for punishemnt and humiliation and it went on for alomost 400 pages. By 200, I was ready to smack her and say: "Why are you putting up with this?? Give the woman what for and get out of there!"
I'm fresh out of reading material and was forced to read the newspaper (yuk!), I'll have to get into town toute suite!