Books I've been reading

My son about his school choir: A group sings together and the sound is like from heaven.  I've been listening to Barbed Wire Kisses by Jesus and Mary Chain. 

Re-read Rules of Attraction and laughed my head off. I'm glad I finished writing before I dipped back into these books, too much influence. Nature Strip by Leonie Stevens, you get a sense of her era (early '80s) as well as the time of publication (early '90s). I read it at 18, recalled the raw feelings of physical contact. Rules of Attraction is set in the insular world of a college campus where not much happens besides promiscuity; I like the film which avoids being 'retro'. Lauren, food services girl (from Warpaint) and guy that plays Paul, are great, he reminds of my aesthete friend who smoked whilst criss-crossing arms. 

The book I'm reading but may not finish, The Inland Sea, has a character that is writing a thesis on Patrick White, and about dead marine creatures (solastalgia) which results in the narrator sharing an opinion about Tree of Man. I cannot write this entry without referencing my deepest sadness about other countries, like men waiting in sewage drains, for a glimpse of entry and a possible airlift out, lost because of paperwork not done and returning to protect their families before curfew and how that infiltrates my bad dreams.