back to lamb.....

ok, so i am back to reading lamb......i have hit a patch of laugh-out-loud places.....most welcome in any novel, and certainly the humor involved in this paticular volume is ironic....given that book club just reviewed a book about galileo that covered much of his heresy trial.......life is still good as we know it if books such as lamb have not caused the contraversy....at least not to spongepants bob proportions...of course, it is possible that the religious right has yet to read lamb........especially not the part that involves a turnip.......gentle readers....i never saw that coming.....it is worth buying the book and getting to the turnip part just to see the total hilarity in it.......the turnip is only what biff was stealing/eating at the time.......cannot give away too much here...the surprise is part of the moment's memorable nature......i should polish this book off in the next day or two.....which brings me to my next book........i am considering gilead....nominated for a national book award....or bob dylan's autobiography, also nominated for a book award.......now that i am gainfully employed i feel less guilt about buying books.....though i must keep in mind the critical mass theory of book buying...there will come the book whose weight tilts the balance and causes out house to slide into the creek.....but surely not these books....not this order from amazon..........there is the library.......but what fun is that when there are books to buy and reread........reread.....yes...i could just begin the reread of jane austin...i am due a reread....starting with pride and prejudice...i have quoted twice from this work in the past 2 weeks........each and every life circumstance comes down to something that jane has already covered in a novel......she was such a fine judge of human nature and natural folly.....and recorded all of these foibles for the rest of us to ponder, and to learn from.........so can this be a codicil to the critical mass theory...that books reread take away from new books purchased in some grander mathematical way.........like buying and selling co2 credits......of course, lacking the mind for math i will just save the fiddle-de-dee for another day....and get back to my book...........