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"puerile" ---the new yorker

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Initially, I was going to post about some terribly self pitying and mopey personal stuff which I'm sure you don't want or need to hear. Plus, it would make my upper lip wilt, which would never do.

So instead...I shall recommend you all join a book group. They're great. I belong to one that meets once a month (in a pub!). It's got me reading again, to the extent of having about 5 books on the go right now, it's brought about some interesting discussions (a group of scientists reading Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker, and discovering we don't all hold the same views on The Big Issues) and further more it's made me read books I never would have done. Plus, contacting people you know who are in the group and discussing the book with them all mysteriously in front of non group members is more fun than you'd credit, and as secrets go considerably better for you than having an affair.

What are you waiting for?
--Catherine
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2005.08.06
Blurbism of the Moment
Blender of Love
New Yorker: "It will make you feel young again."

Actual line: "The Heart-on-Sleeve corner posts love poems and missives from visitors (mainly women), most filled with longing and self-pity. It will make you feel young again."

Not quoted: "An editorial page ('Kirk Rambles Regarding Romance') is somewhat puerile, and much of the correspondence is downright sophomoric. ... Its creator, Kirk Israel, is not ashamed to post his own fiction (thought you may be ashamed to read it)."

Israel also wasn't ashamed of his blurbism, emailing it to Gelf and good-naturedly writing, "I'm always tempted to change 'It will make you feel young again'—The New Yorker to just 'Puerile'—The New Yorker."
By sending in my very selective quoting for the 'Blender, I now feel absolved of some vague sense of guilt...