Going Solo

When we were Bad - Charlotte Mendelson
The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness'. Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife,mother,rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation,everyone wants to be with her at her older son's glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family begins to unravel...

The Edible Woman - Margret Atwood
Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat.
First meat. Then eggs, vegetables,cake,pumpkin seeds--everything!Worse yet,she has the crazy feeling
that she's being eaten. Marian ought to feel consumed with passion. But really she just feels...
consumed. (www.fantasticfiction.co.uk)

I Play the Drums in a Band called Okay - Toby Litt
Always hated liner notes - always hated any kinda writing about rock'n'roll - I mean, why don't ya
just shut up & listen to the music? - but here I am now, trying to catch in words what I think &
feel about my good friend Clap & about these fine & dandy tales he's spun - tales of life on & off
the road with a band called okay - a band in which I am lead singer - & in which Clap is drummer - n
ot the world's greatest, technically, even he'd admit to that - but solid & deep & swingin' &
truthful - & I suppose that's what I want to say this here book is - truth-full - if I'd written it,
it would be all about high times & honeys - & Clap has gotten down that wild stuff - but he's also
told the cold truth about the things you lose along the way - & I think he's done it just about as
well as it coulda been done - & believe me, I should know: I wasn't there for most of it.
Stay cool, Syph x.