Reading Wednesday

[sabotabby]

I guess this is the Rush Limbaugh is finally dead edition! And also an edition where I'm tensely waiting with my phone on for the vet to call, which is less good.

Currently reading: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth. I am still reading this 580-page tome. It's still really good! I find the 1903 storyline more compelling than the present-day one—not that it's also not good, but because I like creepy Edwardian boarding school settings more than actors-filming-a-project settings. Did I mention it also has illustrations? Anyway it's worth 580 pages of your time, at least thus far. What better way to celebrate Limbaugh's death than a book where everyone is really gay?

Comments

[kore]

It's 580 pp? Damn, I just got it on the Kindle and had no idea. I miss knowing how long books really are and chunks of pages and being able to flip around.

LIMBAUGH IS DEAD, WHOOOOO I had one commute on a city bus where the goddamn bus driver listened to Limbaugh EVERY AFTERNOON. ALL AFTERNOON. And it was LOUD. By the end of one week every single passenger was wearing headphones.

[sabotabby]

I think it's not quite that long because there are a lot of footnotes. But it's long, and I've had a rash of people thinking that it's a good idea to text me at 8 or 9 pm lately when I'm in bed reading.

Bus drivers listen to talk radio there? So weird. The only time I've ever been on a bus with radio was in Mexico where there are these cute minibus things that have themes and the drivers play good music.

[kore]

Well, this was loooong ago (srsly, I want to say late eighties, even?) and the driver might have had his personal radio propped up at the front of the bus. I don't know if either a private radio or political shows would be allowed now.

[sara]

I feel like killing Rush Limbaugh is the one thing our nation's shitty medical system has gotten right lately.

[sabotabby]

You know he had the best medical care, though. That's how he lived that long.