greetings from the beanery, where the coffee is free & the wireless is hot. wait. strike that - reverse it.

my old man brought my computer to the bus stop so's i could compute while he went to work out. he's a doll, ain't 'e?

currently reading special topics in calamity physics by marisha pessl. just googled it to be sure i had the author's name right, and it's got a very cool looking website which i will have to check out after finishing the book as i don't want to spoil anything for myself. it's tightly written & intense. it's off the wall, off the beaten track, off kilter. it's not like any other novel i've read... and yet it is. it's a coming of age tale [at least, that's what it looks like from here... somewhere around pg 200], and that's simple enough. but the characters are pleasantly multidimensional, and the plot has small twisties that add to the credibility. the style conjures the affectation of a research paper through the inclusion of references within the text. it reads like an autobiography, which makes it more compelling than the lifeless reportage of the recently-reviewed last days of dogtown. it's also complex and filled with references, but doesn't feel exclusionary or inside-jokie, which timbre was an enormous turn-off in the lemony snicket series. all that, and a stellar cover to boot.