Ann Patchett

I really did.

And again, swearing as being an emblem of right speech, that you want to just stop and think about what you actually mean.

And it's a way of controlling your thoughts, trying to find the good.

If you say, I'm going to make a point to find the good and to talk about the good, it very quickly becomes the truth of your life, that there is that goodness in your life.

Yes, there is.

You better believe it.

So a book that will be out by the time this is out, John of John by Douglas Stewart, wrote Shuggie Bain.

Absolutely wonderful about a young artist who has left the small, rocky, desolate island where he grew up off the coast of Scotland, gone to art school, not made it, no money,

And at the end of art school, must go back home to the same rock.

To make it slightly harder, he's flamboyantly gay.

And his father is just diehard Christian.

And he's going home to live in his father's house with his grandmother.

And it is...

A gorgeous novel.

No, no, it's not that.

It is not a brutal book.

You know, there are some tough moments, but nothing like that.

And it's extraordinary.

But the book I want to tell you about, which will not be out until the middle of October...

is called Music Against the Night.