Ancillary Reading

On the off hand chance you're reading this blog because you just can't get enough of people writing about living with (dying from?) cancer -- and, really, who can? -- allow me to recommend How Shall I Tell the Dog? by Miles Kington. 

Kington was a British humor writer and jazz musician who died in 2008 of pancreatic cancer. How Shall I Tell the Dog? is constructed as a series of letters to his editor proposing ideas for the content of his last book. Some of them are very odd, but some are very funny.* And for me at least, a lot of them really resonated. 

I do wish, though, that I could relate better to his story about needing to punch holes in his belt as he lost weight. I have just he opposite problem, and it's getting to be annoying.

Anyway, I read this on the plane back from Costa Rica and thought I'd pass it along. 


* Which is to say, the book is very British.