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three days after first quarter
june 1, 2001 ~ 5:18 p.m.

I was supposed to have the June issue of the Waxing Moon up today, but I haven't finished the book review or the article yet. Hopefully it'll be up in a few days, but I feel annoyed with myself.

I'm reading Anil's Ghost, by the author of The English Patient. I wouldn't have bothered to read it except I got it for free from my work. I'm almost done, and it's getting really interesting. It didn't really hook me at the beginning, not like Red Dragon or After Dachau, but after a while it did.

I've realized that I really prefer reading fiction, when it's good at least. I can get really into the story and zip right through, which I hardly ever do with nonfiction. Nonfiction is a bit more of a chore for me, but I feel guilty reading some random fiction book instead of one of the many nonfictions I've started: Politics and History in Band Societies; Guns, Germs and Steel; Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions; The Selfish Gene; etc. I start a book and then I find some new one and start that, and it keeps going. But lately I've been finishing some that I started a while ago. I wrote a list of books I've started, and I've since crossed off If a Lion Could Talk and Limited Wants, Unlimited Means, and a few others. Since nonfictions are actually about something I'm interested in and want to learn about rather than some fictional character, I feel like I should be spending my reading time on those. But as long as I can squeeze in a few novels here and there, it shouldn't mess me up too much.

Right now I'm trying to get a hold of Rubyfruit Jungle. My library's website said it was on the shelf, but it wasn't, so I had them order it from MLK downtown, and it seems like it should have come in by now. After that I want to read Walking on the Wind, which is about the Cherokee. And of course I have at least ten other books I haven't finished yet.

I also reread A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife a few days ago. I'd forgotten how funny it was -- "weeping like a pretty Japanese girl." I can't get that phrase out of my head now.

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