Tag: does anyone else feel like The United States of Tara hasn’t really known what to do with itself since the first season and might collapse if the actors weren’t all so fun to watch?

Well, having praised “The Lottery” and expressed my preference for novels over short stories, I now must say some less-than-glowing things about Shirley Jackson’s novel The Bird’s Nest. I’ve had quite the string of less-than-glowing reviews, eh? And another one coming up, I’m afraid. I don’t know what to tell you except that they’re all being written on a rainy day at the start of May when there’s nothing sweet for me to eat and my cable box froze so I can’t watch my shows. (The ease with which I produced those three rhymes has cheered me up more than…