Days Like This: The Things They Carried

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien is a renowned and prolific writer on the subject of the Vietnam War. He will be in Rochester the first week of November and at MCC on November 5th, 12 noon, as part of the Visiting Scholar Series. For the next month, in conjunction with O'Brien's visit, there will be many Vietnam War related activities held around town...book discussions on this and other Vietnam War texts, movie showings, a discussion circle with teens and local Vietnam Vets, a discussion of how this war changed journalism and a tour of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Highland Park to name a few.

I'm planning to get this book read before attending O'Brien's reading/book signing engagement at MCC. My reading time is limited, so I guess I'd better get started...

Publishers Weekly synopsis:
Weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam here represent survival, lost innocence and the war's interminable legacy. "O'Brien's meditations--on war and memory, on darkness and light--suffuse the entire work with a kind of poetic form, making for a highly original, fully realized novel.

http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Carried-Tim-OBrien/dp/0618706410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287019211&sr=1-1

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Days Like This

Van Morrison

When it's not always raining
When there's no one complaining
When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch
Well, my mama told me, "There'll be days like this"

When you don't need to worry
When no one's in a hurry
When you don't get betrayed by that old Judas kiss
Oh, my mama told me, "There'll be days like this"

When you don't need an answer
When you don't meet a chancer
When all the parts of the puzzle start to look like they fit
Then I must remember there'll be days like this

When everyone is up front and they're not playing tricks
When you don't have no freeloaders out to get their kicks
When it's nobody's business the way that you wanna live
I just have to remember there'll be days like this

When no one steps on my dreams
When people understand what I mean
When you ring out the changes of how everything is
Well, my mama told me, "There'll be days like this"