Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Hoe That Row, Read That Book


Owen will be here soon and the light is cracking through the trees and I slept hard like it was my job and I was going up for a promotion.

I have nothing new to say except that I finished a book last night and I'd like to recommend it.

Blind Sight by Meg Howrey.

I'd never heard of Meg Howrey. She is a first-time author and her small bio on the back stated that she'd been a dancer and an actor and I wasn't expecting much but this is a very smart, very many-layered novel.

I don't do book reports so don't expect one here but I'll tell you this- the main character is a seventeen year old boy who was raised in a house of women. There is science, spirituality, religion, sexual coming-of-age, sexual identity, fame, fortune, celebrity, a very different take on a father-son relationship as well as one on a mother-son relationship. And college essays.

It's a good one.

If I were Meg Howrey, I'd be proud.

Well, that's the early morning report from Lloyd. I think I'll get out the blender and whip up a smoothie for me and my boy. One never knows what sort of adventures we'll get up to today and we'll need a good breakfast. I sort of wish that a "good breakfast" still meant bacon and eggs and toast and grits but that's a vacation breakfast. Or the breakfast of someone whose day includes plowing the lower forty.

I got no lower forty.

I got no plow.

But I got a grandson. And he likes smoothies.

It all works out.

Hope it does for you, too.

Let's meet back later and discuss.

11 comments:

  1. Good morning Ms. Moon.
    One of my favorite things about my blog world is I no longer have to figure out or look for a book to read because of people like you who offer up good reads. I shall check out "Blind Sight".
    A shake sounds scrumptious and maybe I'll do the same. After I finish my coffee that is.

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  2. I will put that on my list. I am reading An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy (not to be confused with Arundhati Roy) right now. I don't know if I would recommend it. And I linked to a post about books on my blog this morning.

    And thanks for the offer of Mr. M and his gun. I think he would miss you too much, and he would starve. No pancakes and sausage here. He's got it goood.

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  3. Good morning. Thanks for the tip on the book. It sounds wonderful. But first I have to get through the 40 or so books I have on my "to-read" pile. They are stacked on various surfaces in my upstairs.

    Have a swell time with Owen.

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  4. agreed, my to-read pile is borderline hoarder inducing so I'm shying off for now. This sounds interesting though.

    Hobbit breakfast is nothing to be ashamed of; bacon, eggs, toast, and grits are our weekend fair for damn sure!

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  5. Morning to you too Mary! Weekend breakfast on Sunday we have our bacon or sausage with pancakes or waffles or eggs...I love the weekend...

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  6. You've inspired me to get out the blender and make a smoothie. I have to say that I HATE getting out the blender. I don't know why, but I do. The rigamarole -- the agony.

    I wish that it was built in or something, but I've no room on the counter and I just hate pulling it out.

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  7. "slept hard like it was my job and I was going up for a promotion."


    HA!! i love this!!

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  8. Towanda- Well, one never knows if someone else will like what you do but I sure liked that one.

    Denise- Well, you know- it was one of those offers that I knew you wouldn't take me up on. But if you lived nearby- he surely would come take care of those squirrels.

    Ms. Bastard-Beloved- I love you too.

    Bilbo- It was an amazingly well-done novel. I would be proud to be to be the protagonist's mother.

    Ellen- On Sundays we "sin." If you can consider the pancakes I make sin, which honestly? I don't.

    Elizabeth- I know what you mean. I keep the things I use out on the counter and the blender is definitely one of them because I make up that smoothie the night before and put in the refrigerator for Mr. Moon to add juice and a frozen banana to before he goes to work out. It's our ritual. But I hate to clean it. I do.

    dottie- But it's completely true. Oh, if I could only get paid for sleeping...

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  9. Oooo, vacation breakfast. It's oatmeal around here. yum.

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  10. Thanks for the recommendation. I think it is so good for boys to grow up around matriarchies.

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  11. I learned respect from growing up around older women--my mother, grandmother, the lady who traveled the world and taught me to play bridge and canasta. I learned manners. I am grateful for that.

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