Freelance

I just finished reading “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman. The war parts are better than Tolstoy’s and the peace parts are – ah, but what peace was there to be had in the USSR in 1942-3, anyway? In any event, I can’t believe I waited so long to read it. Definitely not feeling Platonov, though, so I do not feel smarter than I did before I finished “Life and Fate.”

I will eventually mark the occasion on Goodreads, but not now. Now I am in a parking lot waiting for Turtleduck to join me at Ranazul.

I got a Kindle for Christmas – the old school model, not the new kind with real web browsing and such. I find reading on the Kindle very agreeable. I was particularly thrilled to find a copy of A.A. Milne’s “Once On A Time” available for e-reader at a ridiculously low (if not free) price.

My paid writing gig has cut me back from weekly to monthly, which is a bummer in economic terms but kind of a plus in that they didn’t cut me completely when they had the opportunity to do so. Maybe this will envigorate my regular blogging a little. I hope it will.