Whatch'all Reading?

[cenacle]

OK, I'll start, I just finished the novel Amnesia Moon, by Jonathan Lethem, written within the past few years. The key to writing really trippy novels is a balance between control and chaos, like playing a guitar while LSD is dripping down your headband into your eyes. Lethem can do it, his novel has full-drawn characters caught in strange, surreal events, and little solid ground for many pages at a time. I have more of his books from the library, hope they're as good....

[judih]

i'm readin the Runaway by Evelyn Lau. True story - great, talented high school girl splits from home, suffers the street and all its trappings.
i'm mid-way - found it for a long bus ride and slipped inside her head.

love slipping inside someone else's head.

not yet sure what else happens to her, but at a certain down point she promised herself to take her journals and make the foul nightmare she was living count for something.

and there is a lesson, if i've ever heard one