you watch too much television and read too many books - not that I really believe either is possible - when you're reading/listening to a book by Simon Winchester and start trying to figure out how he's related to Sam and Dean.

If TVAnonymous or Bibliophile Anonymous exist, please don't tell me about them.

I just finished reading - or rather, listening to - a really wonderful book called Fieldwork. It's set in Thailand and is about missionaries and murder and obsession and finding and losing your place in the world. Because the protag's name is the same as the writer, I kept finding myself wondering if the story really was fiction. When I went to ( Read more... )