davidd's A Doll A Day 2018

[davidd]

I've got a book that I've got less than 100 pages to go on, and I've been reading it for about 6 years now.

I managed to get through over a thousand pages of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, but somehow set it aside for almost two years with only a hundred or so pages to go. When I finally got around to finishing it, which I eventually did, I found the ending to be rushed and unsatisfying and perhaps a bit stupid. I think I would have been less disappointed if I had not bothered to finish it.

Reading LOTR has been on my "to do" list for practically ever. I'm down to the last half of the last book, so I can't stop now. But like Clawdeen, I keep wanting to set it aside and go to sleep.

And now for today's special horror:

8 July – Dumpster Diver Barbie Meets Her Demise

I tried, I really tried, but I couldn't rescue Dumpster Diver Barbie!
I spotted her while I was dropping off trash at the refuse transfer site (aka the dump) today. She is pinned beneath the entire weight of one of the huge steel dumpsters. How she ended up under the dumpster I don't know.