Category: Life

I’m hosting my book club next week and I need to come up with three book selections for us. As usual, I’m having some trouble but I already have one novel selected.

I still need to think of two more options. I do have these two books on my shelf but they’re not suitable as they’re short story collections:

1. No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
   • I’ve started it and it’s interesting but we don’t do short stories.
2. The Breakdown So Far by M. A. C. Farrant
   • Ditto — another book of short stories.

I plan to purchase and read these as well but they’re also not quite appropriate:

1. Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
2. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler

I’m open to any suggestions. I want an edgy and well-written novel set in the
present time or the future.

Sometimes — like today — I see my friend L. en route to work. She was on a streetcar that passed my stop but there was no hope in hell that I was getting on that jam-packed thing.

We just smiled and waved at each other. Two more streetcars went by before I could finally jam myself into one. Oh, the joy that is public transit.

I am really starting to loathe my morning commute.