Umm...Sap??

As you may already know, Norman Mailer passed away earlier this month - November 10th to be exact. Well, I must confess to not being a huge Mailer fan. I frankly consider him to be a rather sexist couchon. But, no one take away his many accomplishments, especially those of the posthumous variety. Imagine my "pleasure" when I read that Mr. Mailer won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award!

I won't keep you in suspense...

His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.

"The Castle in the Forest"

Now really, what does one say after that?

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Shame!

I was very disappointed to read this article in the Globe and Mail today. Banning books?? What's happening in Burlington? A shortage of real challenges to resolve? As a reformed agnostic (some may incorrectly term me a lapsed Catholic), nothing strengthened my desire to leave religious thought and practice behind like the dogmatic, illogical assertions of some of my "teachers". So in that respect, the good folks at the Halton school board are doing a great job urging thinking students out the door. Good one!

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Can't Hardly Wait

I love books, and I also love trashy celeb biographies, so you know that I can't WAIT until Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise comes out - January 15, 2008.

Rumour has is that Morton is going into deep hiding because the Scientologists are after his ass - you know this means this book is going to be TRASH-tastic. And mostly true, of course.

Another Winner

The Giller Prize was awarded this Tuesday in Toronto - Elizabeth Hay's Late Nights on Air was the winner. I'll confess to being ignorant of this book, but I've read another of her novels, A Student of Weather, and thought it was a good book. We'll put it in the maybe pile - but with Alice Munro in that photo I'll admit to being swayed.