Sea of fertility
I have started watching Damages, which I am now watching addictively. I only have three more episodes. They are starting to tie things together and stopping adding seventy three new plot points every time. So far it’s all hanging together very nicely, especially when I just assume that every single character is a setup — when I forget and assume someone isn’t, I am always proven wrong. I am still not entirely sure which side is setting anyone up at any given time. It’s a 13 episode miniseries, pretty much, and available on DVD.
I am also listening to the Canada Reads folks, and they’re explaining how ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’ is so culturally specific (ie not about whites, not about men) that they cannot possibly recommend it to all Canadians, as opposed to King Leary, which is safely about a hockey player, and that’s not a culture at all. My heart is with this book to win, but my brain knows it won’t. Speculative fiction! Women! Caribbean culture! Better get to more standard books about snow and white and ice and snow in Canada.