SFist Reads
The love of our life is prersently reading The Howling, and he is scared out of his mind. As we walk the dog he insists a werewolf is stalking us, and you don't even want to know what he's been keeping under his pillow. While we may mock him as he insists on sleeping with a light on, we're also a little jealous -- it's been a long time since a book scared us like that. When's the last time a book had you looking over your shoulder? Let us know in the comments, we're looking for something new and creepy to reserve online or pick up at one of our fine local independent bookstores.
Furthering a nascent French Revolution theme, SFist Jackson is reading A Tale of Two Cities. For whatever reason, he didn't get a chance to read much Dickens in high school or college, but that's probably for the best. The prose truly is remarkable. The best part so far was learning why Madame DeFarge spent all her time knitting -- into her shawls she was secretly encoding the names of the aristocrats, spies and other loyalists who were doomed to the Guillotine. Good times.
SFist Rita found a copy of the galleys for the forthcoming To Hell With All That by Caitlin Flanagan for 98 cents in the stacks outside Green Apple. Ninety-eight cents! Flanagan's book is a collection of her essays for the Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker about her profound ambivalence about being and having been an upper-middle-class stay-at-home mom. All in all, SFist Rita doesn't find Flanagan as anti-feminist as everyone says she is, but Flanagan's certainly one of those writers for whom everyone can find something to hate (i.e., telling stay at home moms to get a life, while also telling working moms that their kids probably don't love them as much). You should probably feel kind of secure in your own life decisions before reading this book, though, or it'll send you over the edge.
SFist Jer is still reading March's Food & Wine, which, in addition to the coffee guide he talked about in yesterday's Trimeth, has an opinion piece on food blogging that, while amusing, Jer could also pick a bone or two with. Great recipes and wine advice are present throughout, as usual. MMMMMmmmmm, toast recipes. MMMMMmmm, chocolate cookies & cream tower. Food porn-o-rama.