Book quiz!

( Wow, is that a big picture. )

Braving Home, by Jake Halpern

A fun book. Essays about people living in strange inhospitable places (eg surrounded by molten lava, on a recently-flooded floodplain, and so forth). Well written, good insight into character, and made me like both the subjects and the narrator. Minor quibble: the Cajuns came down from Acadia, where the Acadians live. NOT Arcadia where the Arcadians live.

(27/200)

all music all the time

Stolen from mynuet, lilituc, vixyish, and a bunch of other people, as most of my memes are.
( The 20 songs that came up when I set my computer to randomize all tracks: )

Fat White Vampire Blues, by Andrew Fox

Basic Premise: Overweight schlub of a New Orleans vampire (but sympathetic protagonist) has his life fall apart when he is targeted by the new guy in town. Many wacky and sad hijinks ensue.

I liked this not as well as I'd hoped to, but better than I'd feared after the first 50 pages. Was decent reading.

(28/200)