The Sparrow

So I cleared my reading backlog and finally got around to reading The Sparrow (thanks Laura!). It was a good book, although the pacing was a bit odd. I do have a big beef with one thing about the book. For all the characters that I liked (Jimmy and Sofia) Anne Edwards might be my least favorite character in a book EVER! Every time she showed up to spit some pious little homily it made me roll my eyes and gag a little. She seemed like such a fake Deus Ex Machina for the author and sure enough when I got to the end of the book the author mentioned that she based Anne and George off of herself and her husband, gee who would have guessed!

Aside from that though it was a good book, if not exactly light reading. Makes me want to get started on my own recasting of the Protestant Reformation as a space opera ;-).

~Ian

Rome

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Well, here are the pictures you've all been waiting for. There's 80 of 'em, so line up some antipasta and grappa before you settle in for a slide show. Caio!

More Molly

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game babies...

Hey Ian and Liz - you should check out episode 2 from this season of Scrubs (from last week). You can play the full episode here. It's about, well, it's about having a baby and playing halo 3. Just in case you didn't think TV was relevant to your lives!

Also, unrelated, I had breakfast with Aunt Melissa last week. She was in town for the SOFA show and we met at her hotel downtown. It was fun to chat with her before work, and very convenient. I had smoked salmon eggs benedict, which tasted as good as it sounds!