Reading and Housekeeping

So, yesterday i cleaned and moved around some furniture. Today i did the laundry and continued reading Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN in prep for my grad-English-lit class next month; it is, by far, waaaaay far, far, the bloodiest and most nauseatingly disgusting book i've ever read! I won't give a full review because then i would only be exposing myself for torture. But, boy, it's nasty. The setting is 1849 wild wild west, American frontier, manifest destiny kind-of-idea complete with the hunting, scalping and massacring of Indians. Every couple of pages, the reader is treated to gruesome murders, mutilations and all manner of body butchery. Men are eating raw buffalo liver, raw mule, raw horse meat, raw whatever *puke*. I'll stop there. What kind of imagination does this author have??? I know the book is based on real historical events, but lord! No wonder he avoids interviews :( . One blurb (in the book) about the author says, "McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly- envied." Yea, sure, whatever. The book is extremely well written, but i wouldn't recommend it, unless you have really good control over your gag reflex!

On a more palatable note, I had some really nice baked chicken for dinner today, and guess who cooked? Moi! I know, i'm just so full of myself :) I don't enjoy cooking though. When i get rich i will be sure to hire a chef, that's it. I can handle everything else :) Hmmm, i will leave you with a happy note:

Roses are red, or yellow, pink, white... whatever,

violets are blue, i think,

sugar is waaaay too sweet,

and so are you!

...by the way, i did finish that Margaret Atwood book, ALIAS GRACE. Yea, the one that weighs 12pounds. It's thick, but superb. I'm not a huge Atwood fan, yet, but she is an amazing writer, simply amazing...