odds and ends

I think my plan was to write about the Hunger Games trilogy all at once, which I think I finished post-Cleopatra, and then I read The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution (Richard Dawkins's latest...or near-latest?), and I think there was something else...but now all the books have gone back to the library, and I don't remember.
I'll work on it, but not now. Generally - positive with minor/medium quibbles in both cases.

Novels Can Be Serious Business...

...I am taking this article as justification for all the reading of, and thinking/writing about, novels that I do.
"Next Big Thing In Literature: Knowing They Know That You Know," New York Times 3/31/10. Patricia Cohen

see also "Can 'Neuro Lit Crit' Save the Humanities?" NYT blog 4/5/10

Also all the procrastination I do.