Books

I've only managed to get through two books so far this year - Unless by Carol Shields and Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Both were excellent reads and so far away from each other on the great spectrum of literature that I can feel good knowing I've exposed myself to more than the regular old novel. Unless features a mother and father that have lost their daughter to the street. It illustrates how life both stops and progresses when tragedy strikes. Running with Scissors, which has been made into a movie already, is the oft hilarious, always shocking memoir of Augusten Burroughs who was sent to live with the family of his mom's psychiatrist in his early teens. Using the ratings system I came up with last year, these books each earn a 3.