LORNA SORE

FOOD: Last night I baked eggplant and acorn squash and also steamed some broccoli to eat with this cheddar cheese sauce. We had a lot of cheese sauce leftover so we ate it with millet this morning and it was awesome and tasted like cheese grits. Last week I made barley with roasted butternut squash and apples and that worked pretty well. I have switched from coffee to tea.

BOOKS: I have mailed 15 free books to strangers via BookMooch.com. I wish there was a similar website for clothes. I read Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee and thought it was sort of dull until I finished it and then I thought “interesting” and now I want to read it over again and pay closer attention. Other books are The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, Earwitnesses by Elias Canetti, and the poetry magazine Invisible Ear, put out by my friend Seth Landman. Now I am reading Color of Darkness by James Purdy and The Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion. Didion has signed on to write the HBO biopic of Katharine Graham. I loved Graham’s memoir and can’t wait for this movie.

NEWS: George W. Bush’s email address used to be G94B@aol.com. One of Alice Munro’s books was once referred to as “a big dish of Beluga caviar” sailing in “on a sparkling bed of rice, with a mother-of-pearl spoon.” A South Carolina priest is telling his parish that they won’t be receiving communion if they voted for Obama.

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