. . . that I wanted to share, but just kept reading.  This one though, requires me to take a break long enough to post it here.

"'I need you to do some research for me.'

'That's what I'm here for.'

'There's supposed to be a law firm in Frisco called Briscoe/Thyme.  I think the last name is spelled like the Simon and Garfunkel song but it could be temporal.'  I liked talking to Zephyra because she knew all the words in five or six dictionaries."

page 89

"Why Deadpool is a subversive character and how the movie could get him right"

[Which I found when I followed the link to:

"Female novelist Learns How Far a Male Pen Name Can Take Her"

posted by one of you earlier this afternoon, but too long ago for me to be able to scroll back that far now, because that's how my tablet feels right at the moment -- it's like "screw you, I'm tired now" or something.  So apologies . . .  And of course my brain is also not cooperating. I should be able to remember who posted it -- and I probably will be able to remember it tonight at like 2:00 am or something. ]

follow the link below:

From the flyleaf:

" . . . because the Americans run the prisons (let's be honest: as they do so many parts of *her country) . . .  "

*Her, meaning Gaby Bailleux, Australian.

so Peter Carey, an Australian author, is saying Americans run many parts of Australia.

do you agree with this?  Would you say this is perceived to be true?

just got the book from the library today, btw.  Looks like it's going to be a good one.