i was in new york this past weekend for my youngest cousin's bar mitzvah (which was a comedy of errors, as things generally are when the extended family gets together and when my brother is driving on the highway, but which ended in tragedy as the bar mitzvah boy broke his collarbone at hockey tryouts right after the luncheon ended).
anyway, i took some pictures, but as you can see from this one, the bimah is totally backlit by some big-ass windows and they didn't really come out. this is a picture of my dad holding the torah, by the way. most of the other pictures are of relatives preparing for family photos, and of the males of the family playing pool in my cousin's playroom. also be sure and go through the flickr photos to see my sister's cat's abnormally fluffy tail. seriously, it's weird.
fun weekend, plus plane rides meant book-reading time.
maile meloy's liars and saints
it was sort of weird to read this after the other meloy book--definitely they should be read in order--but it was still very engrossing.
jeffrey ford's girl in the glass
historical thriller type thing, as a couple of con men in the 1930s posing as mystics/seers/speakers-to-the-dead get involved in a real-life mystery when one sees the image of a missing girl during one of their seances. an entertaining read, interesting side issues involving the repatriation of mexicans and the popularity of eugenics during those years.
camilla gibb's sweetness in the belly
a young girl's parents are murdered and she ends up being raised in a sufi mosque, never quite fitting into any world she ends up in, trying to make a place for herself, finding love, etc. a really nice read about immigration and the political situation in ethiopia in the 1970s and afterward.
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