another saturday

read the last 15 or so pages of "saturday" this morning. (and it's saturday today!) it was rather good. there was a very enjoyable and explicit neurosurgery scene toward the end. with that bit i was enraptured. yeah, fun. the two things that made me flinch were (1) when he was spreading wide the skin on his scalp to expose the depressed skull fracture and (2) when the brain was exposed and he tapped it with his finger.

sometimes the book seemed a little overfull, too much going on, but i suppose it wasn't unreasonable. it's the best mcewan i've read, the first one, actually, that didn't end up irritating me. so that's a good review.

it was 97 degrees here yesterday. it should be roughly that again today. yick. i know we've had it nicer here in the pacific northwest than other parts of the nation, but for me this is too hot. the cats are lolling like mental patients on the floor. the dogs' tongues are out and dripping, also like those of mental patients. hm.