Tuesday, August 02, 2005

2005 book 99

stephen sherrill's the minotaur takes a cigarette break
i think it's book 99--i didn't think to check whyat yesterday';s numbers were. if not, i'll edit it some other time!
this book was pretty entertaining--the minotaur, immortal, has taken a job working in the kitchen of a restaurant, where he becomes infatuated with a waitress, but of course being half man, half bull makes life complicated for the guy. i think neil gaiman comparisons might be appropriate here--there's a little bit of that sort of a humor, although sherrill's minotaur is also presented wistfully.

i was runnning low on books, but managed to hit a bookstore today--phew!! my sister got a pet hermit crab this afternoon, as well, which she promptly dubbed "napoleon dynamite." she plans on getting a friend for it ("pedro") when they get back to pittsburgh (the poor crabs at the store all had these garish shells--painted with baseballs and footballs and magic 8 balls, and with things written on them like "miami beach" [we're in south carolina]).

3 comments:

David said...

What will book 100 be?!?! I am nervous. Something by Ann Coulter, perhaps? Mill on the Floss? Who can know?

pinky pinkerson said...

thank you for reminding me about that book! I remember reading a blurb about it some time ago and then forgetting all about it.

Alicia K. said...

book 100 was sadly a disappointment--i'll have to find some way to console myself.