Sunny 9 for 2005 September 9

I just got done with The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx and am halfway through The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. I highly recommend The Moon is Down, it is one of those simplistic intellectual books, the ones they have you read in 9th grade honors English, and if you read it again 10 yrs later you would get a lot more out of it and even something different with your maturing perspective on life. Anyway, I find it amazing that John Steinbeck wrote it during WWII and it was smuggled into "occupied land" and translated into so many different languages. Pretty cool stuff.

I supposed I enjoyed The Shipping News, however I found some parts to be a little vulgar. It was a little depressing, but in the end it had a good message. I think that the juxtaposition of her message and the storyline makes it so that you don't really believe the message though. Does that make sense?