I've had a story running through my head for a few years, but I can't seem to get anything on paper (so to speak). I'm not sure I can write more than a couple paragraphs before I get stuck on where to go next. All that to say I feel your pain and frustration.

Yes. The Times review is glowing, and this book's on my reading list because of that. There's also this interview with Strout:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016…

"Deal Me Out" is one of the greatest episodes of television ever.

Do not even bother to build a perimeter.

Pissed-off Rosalee is a thing of beauty. Man, I'd go out of my way to stay on her good side.

Seitan is worse than Satan.

So was I. AVClub doesn't feel right without MBS.

The Three Mile Island event occurred in 1979. But, cripes, that clue is so convoluted that just about any response seems reasonable to me.

The Pretender was one of the dumber shows I've ever seen. (This from a woman who faithfully watches NCIS)

I was going to pick out some snow day (actually sleet-freezing rain-and-a 1/2" of ice day) movies. Then I remembered that my neighborhood can easily lose power when a squirrel runs too fast across a power line. It'll probably be backgammon in the dark for me.

I imagine tuna fish candles really add to the ambiance.

You're welcome.

Ron Funches gives me life.

As it should be.

Heh. I was also confused.

I think that, at one time, "Robert Stroud"was a household name. Not so much anymore, though. I knew the name when I was a kid (back in the stone age), but just a couple weeks ago I was thinking about the movie, and I couldn't recall "Robert Stroud".

/snerk/ You gotta love HDB's ability to make everything, including the death of one of the world's greatest rock stars, about him.

Yikes! I'm happy you made it back home in one piece. Stay safe and warm.

The armchair liberals in Chapel Hill would faint at the very suggestion that they're part of the border region.

I'm not sure that will narrow things down.