Not a lot to say about this particular Thursday. It felt very much like a Thursday, and any lingering Wednesdayness about it faded as the afternoon wound on. Tomorrow, after all, is Friday.
I did finish reading Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. I’m not entirely convinced that the late science-fictional elements that found their way into the story weren’t just a touch silly, but overall I thought it was a really lovely book, weaving in and out of different times and characters’ lives, warm while also wonderfully inventive. (There’s a chapter that’s a PowerPoint slide presentation. Which somehow managed to be one of my favorite chapters in the book.)
I liked the African safari chapter the best – I’d read an excerpt of it in the New Yorker quite some time ago (in Banff, actually), and really enjoyed it.