Friday
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Headline from nypost.com: “America’s bipartisan hatefest is doing China and Russia’s dirty work for free.” Tough to argue.
From NYP: “Philadelphia mayor slams ‘unacceptable’ protest against Jewish-owned shops on Nazi terror anniversary.” Please tell this is not as bad as it sounds.
Bad news on the oil and gasoline front. From NYP: “Power surge: Ukraine knocks out 15 Russian oil refineries, causing $23.2 billion in damage: officials.”
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I rarely deviate from fiction in my reading. I got lucky when I picked up The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, a journalist who grew up in less than humble circumstances. It was published in 2007. She is the second oldest of four children, three sisters. Her father was a highly intelligent chain-smoking alcoholic, her mom a flighty prolific though failed artist/writer. Neither held a job for long. Money was tight, food often scarce, clothing worn. The family led a nomadic life, dwelling in rural communities, improvising as they went along. The parents were 90% negligent, allowing the kids to roam free. They imparted one crucial trait — respect for learning. All four did well in school when they weren’t being home-taught. Eventually they settled in a ramshackle house in the father’s West Virgina hometown in mining country. It was their longest stay anywhere until, one by one, the kids moved to NYC, where all but one, the youngest, a female, led a good productive life. The parents eventually followed, living as squatters in an abandoned building. Despite neglect and frequent friction, the kids loved them, grudgingly accepting them for what they were. The prose and dialogue are first rate, the 288 pages of the hardcover edition reading like far less. 50,000+ users at Amazon have rated The Glass Castle, forging to a consensus of 4.6 on a scale of five. I’ll go with four. Walls, now 66, has written five books in all, three of them novels. Her parents are deceased. She has no biological children but is a stepmom. The runaway success of the memoir enabled her to acquire a farm in Virginia, where the remains of her parents are buried side by side. Photo from Google Images:
The Anti-Inflation Book Shop was rained out. I spent a big chunk of the day exiting HSBC and moving into BOA. I chose not to cash in my CD, as it would have incurred a huge penalty. I’ll think about it when it matures in March. My thanks to the women who helped me sort it all out. It was exhausting.
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