the people all call her alaska

trying to decide how to feel about today. The Pretenders have come back into my life and I'm not going to deny how much I love it. I am finally enjoying reading again. This is big. I was starting to worry that I was a philistine (specifically in reference to Jeff Daniels character's description of the word in the Squid and the Whale. Rent it or borrow it from me). I haven't been really into a book in about six months and finally I am. Iris Murdoch's, A Severed Head. It isn't perect but it is interesting me. It is actually reminding me a lot of Saul Bellow or at least More Die of Heartbreak. It's faster paced but it is dealing with a lot of the same issues. Maybe I just like books that are almost exclusively conversations or musings about relationships. I would put Women in Love in this category too. This probably says a lot about my improv. I should start reading spy novels or something.