My current read is "Dog Years" by Mark Doty. The jury's still out on it, but I'm giving it a chance. I find myself enjoying the poetic prose on one page and then being bored on the next. At any rate, the cover's a beaut. I did love this excerpt:"Don't all children seem to glow, in photographs? Pictures of children are more radiant than images of our adult selves, because they are less self-aware, less self-monitoring. Pictures of dogs are like that, too. Dogs don't watch themselves from some imaginary point on the outside; they are not split into subject and object, but the camera can stand outside them and look at them in a way they'll never look at themselves."
Dakota reminds us how true that is:
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