Neglect!

OK, so I've been neglecting Wooley Insights in favour of the flavour of the month, mentioned previous, FACEBOOK! It's wholly addictive, watching everything all your friends do and jumping on the same bandwagons to do stuff right back at them! Quite an incredible waste of time but it is re-connecting me with friends lost, even if I'm just throwing sheep at them!

Also, work has been a fairly predominant force in my life again... Five 12 hour shifts in seven days made for little time for anything else. I'm also carrying a grudge around having been phoned by work on five of nine days off! Not really fair? Doesn't make for good wind down time! However, they've pretty much left me to it (so far) this weekend so D and I have enjoyed some proper rest and relaxation!

Have been printing up photo's, including those from our Civil Partnership and these are available through Facebook for those who wish to friend me, or by email if you want to nudge me with your email address! I've also added whole host of other personal pics to my Facebook pages so there's more incentive than ever to avoid signing up!

Having some difficult finding a copy of Ivri Lider's Ha'anashim Ha'chadashim album which I want to buy... I can download it from iTunes, which means you miss out on the CD booklet insert (which may have, albeit in Hebrew, the lyrics!) but Amazon, Play.com, Google Product search and ebay haven't really helped! Daned difficult finding weirdo music!

Am reading more again, especially now Big Brother is over (Liam was robbed!) and have finished Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture by Warren Dunford, A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon, Gay Blades by Ben Tyler and The Trouble Boy by Tom Dalby!

Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture is a fast flowing, vaguely suspensefull attempt which I whizzed through easily. Nothing too demanding on the reader, with simply, predictable characters and setting.

Gay Blades was an awful 'summer read' that dwelt on sex and the idea that everyone in Ice Skating (and Country Singing) is gay! It had little to no substance, dragging the reader predictably to an uninspired finish! This seems t be aimed at a non-literate mentality I'd think though a part of me still wanted to get through each chapter!

The Trouble Boy follows the lives and antics of a stereotypical New York group of gay twenty-somethings. Told from the perspective of one spoiled, substance-lacking individual on the same old, same old road to publishing his sceenplays, it jerks towards another fairly obvious ending but with enough tidbits along the way to maintain an interest. No as bad as much of the gay literature I've encountered but no classic. The author however is kinda cute and the book also contains 'discussion questions' which add a slight depth to this particular offering.

Finally, the brilliant A Spot of Bother... Mark Haddon's first novel, Curious Incident I've mentioned before as a must read and this second outing didn't disappoint either! Full of understandable and well written characters, we follow the lives, loves and mental breakdowns of one family with hilarious, moving and sometimes stomach churning moments throughout! A stroke of genius once again and with a television drama hitting our screens tonight by the same author, this guy is going to go far!

Interesting that the non-gay (although containing gay characters) novel is the one that stands out! I do find that much gay literature is poorly written, uninspired or simply stereotypical. I really must finish my own novel for comparison! (Like that's ever going to happen!) Jxx