book club.....

ok, so bookclub was this evening.....an occassion that we almost forgot given all that is going on.......and we both went...given that my spouse read the book.......and i was so proud that my spouse made major contributions to the conversation on plot, style, and general prose involving clay's quilt........and at this point i must also credit our friend buck......who said right off that he felt the book poorly written......a nice segue to my story about andrew and the retired U.K. English professor who feels that Kentuckians treat their own literature as too precious for criticism.......but i digress......from the fact that i did not finish the book.....it came in the midst of my manic fling through both iris murdoch and lorrie moore......and though i did pick up plot points about the end.....i suppose i must go back and read the remainder just to say that i finished it.......not a particularly bold advertisement for this bit of precious literature.......'i felt i had to finish it'......is not a desirable bookjacket quotation.....i also had a chance to catch up with one of my few actual buckeye friends....and we admitted internal conflict about u of l's 3rd place status.......we want to feel happy for them...but as buckeye fans we cannot.........life is rough like this.......