The Room and the Chair

To recap, when I want books from the library, I don’t go in search of a book. I go to the adult shelves, the young adult shelves, and the children’s shelves, start at A, and take home the first two or three books on each shelf that I haven’t read yet. I use pretty much no discernment except that I skip major fantasy in the adult section (because I find it forced and usually full of underlying moral “lessons”) and I’ve had enough of that one author who is just TERRIBLE (whose name I’m not going to mention because I think that might be mean and we all know I don’t want to be mean).

Well, I’ve given it a few tries, but I have officially knocked one more genre off my list of what I will read, and we have this book to thank for it. So: no more contemporary political/mystery/subtle-statement "thrillers". I thought perhaps I might eventually warm up to these newspapermen, army bigwigs, political underlings, and statesmen’s wives if I read enough of these books.

Nope. Sorry. Just couldn’t do it. Bored silly. Ain’t happening again.

Call me lazy, but if I just don’t care that much about politics in real life (hey, I research candidates, I vote, and I consider my part done) then why would I want to flood my imaginative life with them? I wouldn’t! These people bore and annoy and frustrate me on a daily basis. They flood the news and semi-intellectual conversations all around me. I don’t like it in my daily dealings and I don’t like them getting in the way of my reading enjoyment. So enough! No more politics in books! I’m not listening to their subliminal messages anyway! Bring me a nice unicorn and a clever caper by a kid named Zach, because that’s all I want when I read! Entertaaaaaaaaaaain me!!

Oh, so about this book (yeah, I forgot)- it’s one of those that has about ten major characters and the scene cuts from character to character to follow their part of the unfolding story. I didn’t really like any of the characters and I certainly didn’t care about the unfolding story (secrets in DC, of course), so I just kept skipping around to the parts that were following the only character I found interesting, which was the opening USAF pilot who ended up in a tree. That was sort of interesting. Then one of her friends died when they all went AWOL for sledding in Afghanistan or something like that… semi-interesting… and then I’m pretty sure she ended up dying. In this room. With a chair.

Not sure. Didn’t care.