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This week I finished my book High Fidelity? It was very interesting as he ends up proposing to his girlfriend, Laura, after an intense funeral and a weird get together. They start up his old club, called The Groucho, which is basically just an old people's throwback retro-club. He is interviewed for the start up of his club by a cute, sophisticated reporter whom he is immediately infatuated with. He plans to meet up with her for a drink although he has just reunited with Laura. When he realizes what has occured he has an epiphany. The next page he is sitting at a bar, with butterflies flittering through his stomach, he proposes to Laura. He sees that by getting married he is opening his wife, When your thirty something and not married thats all you can think about, being single or in a relationship, but when you get married it opens you up to pursue whatever you want. He realizes that he is completely dependant on Laura, his friends, social life, habits, money, all includes her but she is not dependant on him. She has taken time to pursue other aspects of her life so that she has something to fall back on while he can't progress until he gets married. This was an interesting turn of events in the book because, personally, I didn't know what Rob was going to do and I'm pretty sure he didn't have an idea of what he was going to do. High Fidelity was a good book and I would recomend it but its definately not for everyone. Rob is a hard character to like if you dont understand his relationship to music and if you dont like music, you wont get it.

I also am reading The Crossing which is getting good already. Billy is just a kid who traps a wolf. Right now he is walking around with the wolf muzzled and he is trying to take it back to Mexico. The most interesting part so far, which included heavy foreshadowing, was his meeting with an old man. McCarthy uses spanish during their small talk but when he wants to emphasize the important parts he lets them talk in English so that the reader understands the importance of their words. McCarthy uses this to make it clear to the reader the unimportance of the surroundings but the importance of the words. Basically the man says that once you have caught the wolf everything will change. I'm excited to read Billy through his quest.