WTF is up with Melinda's song choice? Every week it seems to get worse. Ick. This is supposed to be a pop competition, not the entertainment at an AARP meeting.
I was disappointed in LaKisha's song choice tonight. First off, I was really hoping she'd listen to Lulu, because I think she'd have been dynamite singing that other song. Second, my brain was super bummed when the entry of the song didn't lead into Kanye West's, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone." I was ready to jam! Anyhoo, that song was boring and kinda creepy, IMHO. She's super talented, but I've enjoyed her more in past performances.
Jordin is so talented. What Simon said about wanting to jump off a bridge actually made sense to me in a weird "Simon" kind of way. She was that convincing in her performance. She did awesome.
I really enjoyed Blake's performance tonight. I loved what he did with his beat boxing and the acoustic guitar. Really smart and cool.
The bad? Gina was so, so, so, so terrible. Oh.my.god. Yeah, she's a rocker blah blah blah, but she was no match for such a great song. It was painful for me, and I'm not just saying that to be mean.
Everyone else was somewhere in the middle for me. (Except for Sanjaya, of course, who seems more like a drag queen every week.)
I finished reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton last night, which is my tenth book of 2007.
I loved this book. It's the story of two working class families in Perth, Australia, over twenty years time during the 40s/50s/60s. It's really fantastic. The story is rich with details and description, and the characters are extremely well developed and compelling. I was sad to finish it. This is March selection for my book club.
I recently joined Paperback Swap, and I don't know why I waited so long. This is a great system.
I've sent off at least ten books to people who really want them, freeing myself of clutter, and I've received two books. I have three others on the way. The selection is a bit limited for my tastes, but with a list of more than 200 books to read, it really hasn't been hard to go down my list and find titles someone is offering up.
If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it.
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I'm currently reading three books. And enjoying two of them so much that I am struggling to decide which to read at any given moment.
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton - This is my book club's March pick. It's an excellent story so far and drew me in quickly.
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - The second in the Outlander series. I've been looking forward to finding out what happens to Claire and Jamie ever since I finished Outlander, so I'm loving this.
Cross-X by Joe Miller - This is an excellent nonfiction book with the pace and intensity of a great novel. It was our book club pick last month, and when I didn't finish it for the meeting, I lost momentum and put it down. I need to polish it off already.
I just finished Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin.
This one suprised me, but in a good way. I enjoyed reading about a less-than-perfect protagonist, and I think Emily Giffin did a great job keeping you unsure how things would end. This is a little better than most so-called chit lit. I recommend it.
