What "Farmville" Should Be Like

I think I'd like Facebook's "Farmville" better if it were more like Heather Christle's first book, The Difficult Farm, which you need to read. The poems in the book are insistent about the bizarre things they've discovered. They want to tell you about them, but you've got to catch up to them first. They're like rare animals that you just know will turn to gold in your hands if you can catch one. Man, that'd be one hell of a FB app.

So I'm up on Laura Scott's blog! You know, the one that you should be reading because the people that comment there are smart and helpful?

I just finished reading Abagail Thomas's, Three Dog Life, her memoir about her adapted life after her husband got run over by a car, and it's the only book I've ever had to stop reading. Not in that, "this is a bad book" way (I've had plenty of those moments), but because I couldn't handle it, just flat out. I'm a strong reader and like my books like I hate my coffee, but Three Dog Life got to me personally, and I feel better because of it. If you want beautifully framed writing that will tell it to you like it is while still giving you that juice that stories promise, then Abagail Thomas is your lady. She makes the tartest lemonade in town, but god you'll just love the pucker.