i'm reading this awesome book by michael chabon... about halfway through, but i couldn't wait until i was finished to share two things thar i love about it... it's filled with footnotes that make me loaugh out loud, belly laugh style... like one that mentions a book being found years later in an ikea display in new jersey (chabon is brilliant, pays incredible attention to detail, and just makes me laugh!)... the other is his description of one of the main character's personality at work and at parties, i have to share it, because i feel the same way, and i love it when books can so clearly describe things i feel or have felt and have not been able to articulate... so without further adieu, a snippet from page 229 (for something more in depth you'll simply have to read the book yourself!):

Introduced into a cursed cirlce of jabber and jazz, he would drift helplessly behind a large plant... Put him in front of a roomful of people at work and he would be impossible to shut up; work was not work for him. Parties were work. Women were work...

ok, that was really a brief snippet, but i just can't even begin to describe to you how much i am enjoying this book... for little background, it's about two jewish cousins (one american, one czech) who write comic books during world war two... but really it's about much more than that... so there, go to the library (if you aren't afraid of them) or your favorite used bookstore and pick up a copy today-YAY!