"I don't trust people who don't like animals"
A gem from last night, and undeniably true - at least for me.
Sorry but animal haters are people that go on to become serial killers.
Just saying.
Generalizations make things better sometimes.
Ahem.
Moving on.
Last night we had an intimate CPBC at Mike and Rachel's Hudson Palace.
It was glorious weather to be hanging out, eating grilled burgers and tasty snacks and beers.
We read Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
I have actually never read anything else by Vonnegut and I can say I was pleased. It was a good and interesting book, but he has a strange writing style, which I think we all agreed upon.
I was caught off guard by the plot and the ending quite honestly.
I've discovered that when I read things on a Kindle, without the tangible evidence of how much of the book is remaining, I get thrown by the ending quite frequently.
I think in this case it would have surprised me a bit in any format.
The plot is told in hindsight and the beginning, I thought, alluded to a long history when in fact the series of events was very short and abrupt.
To sum up, an inventor creates a way to freeze all water in the entire universe contagion style. It 'escapes' upon a visit to a small island where the narrator claims to be a convert to the local underground religion.
Thus the world ends and we have a small batch of survivors thrown together by chance, a tangled web or cat's cradle if you will.
Ta dahhh!
Anyway, at the beginning of the book the narrator makes it seem as though he has long been a practitioner of this island philosophy when in fact, it came about during this visit, in which the ice plague escaped and he has since never left.
Just different. Confusing. I really liked the way the author detailed the characters in the book.
The descriptions were different but gave a good impression of the person perhaps better than a normal physical description would have.
Who knows.
Anyway, it was vunderbar.
I'm ready for the next one. Mike offered to host but looking back at the minutes - this blog - it would appear he hosted only just in February!
Mark and I have not hosted in over a year so I might trump him if he is okay with that.
Gah, what to read, what to read!
Our last pick was an uber dud - Maybe it's Mark's turn to pick a zinger.
Alrighty.
Aside from the minor book chat, we spend the evening laughing at videos of fainting and screaming goats - which we have all decided we want - and images of terrifying creatures from the depths.
Food, drink and laughs with friends old and new, can't ask for a much better evening in my opinion.
As an aside, I am unbelievable happy and proud of the recent developments in equal rights but if I have to read or hear one more person refer to the SCOTUS, POTUS, or FLOTUS I just may stab someone in their VAROTUS - Vulnerable Ass Regions of the United States.
Just stop adding -OTUS to things.
Stop it!
Melizard, out.
