ENDA progress

Good news! Thanks in part to the support of viewers like you, Democrats in the house have responded to the large amounts of criticism from GLBT groups and postponed the non-trans-inclusive ENDA. Barney Frank says that he no longer plans to split the bill.

Here is some more information, though it's mostly focused on the effort to change the bill back:

http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18873154&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=6

Hopefully there will be a more comprehensive article in a few hours.

ETA: This article tells us a bit more:
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=23397

thought-provoking

This week, I finished reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and Have Mercy on us All by Fred Vargas.

Siddhartha was, in some ways, a lovely continuation of the reading I've been doing on Buddhism. I know, I know, I keep saying that - well, it keeps being true! I enjoy Hesse, I really loved the book Steppenwolfe, so I wanted to try this one as well. Anyway, I picked this up used a few years ago, and finally got around to reading it - I started it at Dark Odyssey. I liked it very well. Three stars. My favorite character was Kamala, the courtesan.

Have Mercy on Us All was a suggestion by 7j's dad, which is really neat! I'm happy that we now know each other well enough to suggest books to each other. The book was an intriguing mystery set in contemporary Paris. It's true, I coudn't tell until the end exactly what was going on or who was responsible - but even more than that, what kept me turning the page was the relationships between the characters, both those at the police station and those in the pool of suspects. I'm pleased to see that more of this series, bestselling in France, is being translated into English. Four stars. It's nice to find good books getting translated into English, as we also saw earlier this year with Three Bags Full. I'd love to see more of that happening - I feel like we tend to live in a bubble of American and British writers.

book meme from redjo

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

My Note: Wow, this is a meme of brutal honesty! Or, to put it another way, it looks like a lot of people have not been able to finish the same books I've not been able to finish. I'm also adding a star to those I hope to read someday. At present, I have read 37 of the titles listed.

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