I'm a bit behind on posting again. A few days ago I polished off the last bit of Stephen Dobyns' Velocities, a book of poetry I'd been working on off and on for a couple of years. Poetry's one of those things I can't just sit down and whip through poem after poem after poem in rapid succession. Unfortunatley the long read time for the book leaves me without anything particularly intelligent to say about it.

Saturday night I picked up this month's book group book (my pick), Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order. I accidently stayed up until I finished it. In some senses it's not nearly as weird as his first two, Sewer, Gas & Electric and Fool on the Hill (both of which I'd highly recommend), yet in other ways it's just as weird, though closer to reality. The main character has multiple personality disorder and all of the weirdness stems from that.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 2:48 PM