-finish The Book Thief. Supposed to be a book for teens but I found it exceptional and highly recommend it to any and all. Story narrated by Death and follows the doings of a young girl as she goes from being a nine year old waif to a fourteen year old lover and hater of words and all the things those words have wrought. Set in a small town near Munich and Dachau (13.1 miles from Munich) from 1939 to 1943, we are invited to see The War from the perspective of a German neighborhood which looks very much like our own neighborhood. Chilling and touching, horrific and delightful, life as love and life as the prelude to death, a book that will touch you over and over and over. And yes it is a love story, actually several love stories, with a setting as horrific as one could imagine.
-firedoglake has a blog on Valerie Plame and her new book, Fair Game. Tonight 60 Minutes also has a segment with Valerie. You remember Valerie, the CIA undercover agent outed in a fit of hissy by the gang of bushites. Coincidental costs of the outing? Well, for starters, from an interview with Katie Couric via ThinkProgress:
PLAME: I can tell you all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
Things are lovely at the golf course. Eric is in the clubhouse now, I'll be there this afternoon. Come on out and say hello and head out for a round of golf. It's good for you in so many ways and it also keeps you out of mischief, at least for a few hours.
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