How busy have I been? So busy that I finished reading this book in January and haven't found time to review it since?

Yeah, that busy.

Anyway, I'm back from redesign land and am now 100% free to do whatever the hell I want with my time. Sadly that has meant doing my TAXES. Up until now, that is. Taxes are done. Reading will commence and reviews will be written.

Heck yes.
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

Let me just get this out of the way before I talk about the book…

People thought this was a Vermeer? Seriously?
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The sixth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers' Trilogy ,And Another Thing…, is the first written by someone other than Douglas Adams and, probably not coincidentally, is my least favorite entry in the series.

It's okay. It's an easy read, certainly, and the characters are at least a reasonable approximation of those we met in previous books. The biggest problem is, it's not that funny. I barely laughed. Considering the side-splitting nature of the earlier books in this series that lack of LOL style laughs is a pretty big flaw.

Makes me want to re-read the original trilogy.

I really needed something easy to rest my brain after taxing it reading Pynchon. A nice page-turning like Shadows Still Remain fit the bill perfectly.

That is all.

At first glance, the most striking thing about Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice is the fact that I knew what was going on the whole time.
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