ends, begins

finished "specimen days" the other day. maybe it was yesterday. as i said, it had three sections, and the first section was great. wow, great. the second section was less great than the first, quite good until the end, and the third was markedly less great than the second. so overall the book was all right. maybe if the first section had been the last part i read i would have a higher opinion of the book now.

kara's still in the midst of "saturday" so i picked from our shelves david mitchell's "ghostwritten," and so far i'm liking it. a blurb on the back likens mitchell's style to that of don delillo and haruki murakami, so that's positive in my eyes.

so "the west wing" is over. the final episode was last night. i can't help feeling a little sad. i confess - the show reached me. i could get along watching the santos administration. of course i would also want to see what cj and tobey and will and the character mary mccormack plays are up to. i like the characters! it was a rare tv show.