Mmmmm book.

[kyrielle]

My father loaned me the latest Pern book, Dragon's Kin. I'm glad for the loan and I quite enjoyed it. At the same time, it felt...a bit contrived, really. It meandered and then rushed and then spun about and landed neat and pat and tidy.

And just a touch unreal. Oh, well. It was still a nifty enough story in its own right. Just not quite to the level of some of the others.

Other than that I've read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed book, about the journalist's foray into living on the sort of minimum-wage or near-minimum-wage jobs that many people must subsist on. It's...a very sobering read.

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[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I thought so, too, about Ms. Ehrenreich's book. The situations she described remind me a lot of some of the people profiled in "Bowling for Columbine". I can't help thinking that Nickel and Dimed should be required reading for every political leader... ^-^;;