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I have a penchant for starting my blogs with "so" but I am trying to break myself of the habit. I bought three books yesterday (bad fishy) but I feel as though I deserve them since I have been slogging through a very descriptive look at the Bush Administration's path to Iraq by Bob Woodward called Plan of Attack. Here's a quick summary by Slate, so you don't have to read it.

In any event, one of the books I bought was by the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I really enjoyed. Anyway, I thought it was a "new" book, but I should have paid closer attention, as it was pubbed in 1988. In any event, it is very Catcher-in-the-Rye, and I am quite enjoying it, even if the damn bookstore deceived me by putting it in the "new" section. Bastards.

I also purchased a book by the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers, which I have blogged about before. We shall see how this one measures up. For one thing, it is much shorter.

And the third book I bought is by an NPR guy, who tried to read the encyclopedia from start to finish. I have no idea how it turns out, but hey, it's about words, and so I thought it'd be interesting. Plus, I think Ian will like it too, so that's how I justified purchasing three books instead of the more reasonable two or one.

How's a girl to build a library w/o buying hordes of books?

My old friend, aka Evil Twin, got married recently. I have not had the pleasure to meet his lovely wife yet, but he sent pics of their wedding and everything looked lovely. We grew up in the same "suburb" and spent many days and evenings together over the years, be it at school or swim team or playing football in the park. Ah, memories.

Congrats, KF. So happy for you!