Book completed

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman. My friend T picked this as light reading for this month's book club, but it's not, exactly. Or rather - it's the first-person story of a socially and emotionally isolated woman with an utterly horrific past. Given that the reader accepts the reality of this past, the writing style is very entertaining. However, when I started reading the book I found that after a while, I couldn't just keep going. I had to set it aside and sleep on it. Once I'd done that, I was able to enjoy it. Later in the book, there was another point where I had to set it aside, but this time, only for an hour or so. Then I picked it up and read to the end. But, yikes.

The blurbs on the cover and the back of the book about how wildly hilarious it is are thus kind of disturbing.

Day 781: Quiet Saturday

Today I did a bit of writing, shopped at the supermarket with J, and watched a Perry Mason episode in which the actor who played Star Trek's Dr. McCoy was a hen-pecked husband, and the actor who played Gilligan's Skipper was a less-than-fully-competent private investigator.

DG and AA have found two more worthy houses. This one is walking distance from a fun open-air food truck area, and this one is walking distance from us. The first of these houses is very attractive, and even has an outdoor pizza oven and tea room in the backyard! The second one looks boring from the street but has a very nice interior and yard, with a hot tub. We're hoping that most potential buyers will not look past the street view.