re-Landed

Sorry for the lag. Been out of town.

Not that there is much to add. The news cast worthy violence between Hezbollah and Israel seems to be concluded. Needless to say the low-grade conflict will continue for milennia to come. CNN has a bright future even if their news casting has become rather dim.

Lebanon has rolled up to defend it's borders. Which is an odd thing. Not that they had a choice prior but typically you have to control your own land to say you own that land.

That's all I really gotta say for now - a little burned out on communication. I did recently finish a rather good book however. When you get a chance, pick up Time Traveler's Wife. It's been out for a bit. But stellar. Extraodrindarily sad. Cathartic and needed.

Here is a review from the Washington Post. Enjoy.

For readers of this novel, then, suspending one's disbelief will be one thing. Because it falls into the category of Novels That Play Games or Present Puzzles, one can either abandon The Time Traveler's Wife straightaway (the device does not please you, all the figuring out of who appears as what to whom) or carry on (absurd as it is, it delights you).
But there is a third possibility, that time travel presents itself as an allegory for any kind of impossible or afflicted love or relationship marred by disease, irrevocable distance and finally death. In the end, Niffenegger's choice is not cute; it is serious, and her empathy is an instrument of tremendous grace and imagination. As Henry's own father remarks, wondering why Clare would marry him, "He isn't calibrated to bring peace to anyone's life." But that is an outside view -- another is that Henry is violent, unstable and destructive in his relationships based on temperament alone.
Which is to say that what The Time Traveler's Wife does best is to show the inner life of an enduring relationship as only its protagonists can know it. In fact, Henry's father is wrong; Clare knows peace or blessedness because she was lucky enough to meet Henry -- . Most novels of couples have a hard enough time depicting one half of a couple; usually one spouse is neglected for the other. Here, Niffenegger elevates both, with a slight advantage to Clare, who, by the rules of this book, knows Henry both earlier and longer.