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The New York Times has an amusing and dismissive review of What Should I Do With My Life?, alluded to earlier in these pages. I continue to expect to be entertained.

There's also a more positive review of a new book by Geoff Dyer, author of the best book about jazz. The new one, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, is book about travel, and "a series of darkly comic riffs on failed plans, thwarted romance and 'energetic torpor.'" I loved But Beautiful, have disliked two other Dyer books, and am looking forward to giving him another try.

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I'll have to take a look at that jazz book.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

It's the book that convinced me that there could be a good book about jazz. Since then, I've also enjoyed a couple of biographies--David Hajdu's biography of Billy Strayhorn (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0865475121/qid=1042529944/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8600950-6779106?v=glance&s=books) is the only one that leaps to mind--but Dyer's book takes the prize. If you like that sort of thing. (There are enough sample pages on Amazon for you to find out what sort of thing that is.)