I’ve been trying to slowly work my way through my “to read” list. Last summer I read Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions and Sirens of Titan. I enjoyed both, and plan on reading all the Vonnegut that we have.I recently finished his Mother Night. I really enjoyed it. Sure, it’s a dark book, what with the Nazis and drunks and betrayal and all the rest, but that’s how it goes when humans are emotionally splayed before you. Fictional characters seem quite real, incorporating history, etc.

I really don’t have an intelligent thing to say about the book. I just wanted to make note of it before I forgot to record the fact that I actually read something. I’m certainly going to fall considerably short of my goal… what was it? Thirty books in 2006? Something like that. It’s already May, and I’ve read, what, three non-school books? Pretty pathetic.

I will say that Campbell was quite believable. I believe him when he says he didn’t mean all those nasty Nazi propaganda things he said– that he was doing it as a spy. I know he’s vindicated in the end, and his US contact comes forward, but even before then I was in his corner, even when he was at his most despicable.