book life

Well, I finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle this evening. Now I've got that feeling like, "What do I do now?" I remember when I was a kid acting in a play, and then the last performance of the play was over, and I would get a terrible empty feeling like the whole goal of my life was no longer. It's a 600 page book. I have a poem that says something like, "This way we fit 50 lives into our one life." That's how I feel about novels.

Erik's been reading me The Scarlet Letter, but I don't like it. We finally skipped through the intro because I found it boring as heck. But I still don't like it. We might switch to Crime and Punishment.

I got graphic novel Ghost World out form the library--might start that. And I got a book called Student's Go Vegan Cookbook or something along those lines. Erik wants to make the baked seasoned fries.