SILICON VALLEY * COUNTRY GIRL

Silicon Valley - We are three shows into this new HBO comedy, and I love it!  It's a charming show about some nerdy computer guys living and working together in another, slightly older nerdy guy's house.  They also work at the giant Hooli company, but the idea is that someone will come up with the next big idea and get rich.  It's all surprising and fast, yet slow, but things are happening, and the entire show is very sharp and very entertaining.  

Country Girl by Edna O'Brien - Edna is a famous author who bucked her irish catholic family and tradition to ply her trade and live her life in the 1960s.  Her memoir is interesting and warm and personal.  I love that most writers are readers, as is Edna, and I love her harking back to her early childhood and her impressions of how her life was then.  Her memories are both fond and awful as she grew older and made and stuck by her decisions.  The beautiful thing is that she persevered, and she doesn't come across as hard as she looks on her cover.  The truth is that she seems to be strong, not hard, and very loving and thoughtful.  I really enjoyed this.