I finished Lanny. Embarrassingly it brought me to tears on the Eurostar. This is a wonderful and a strange book, strange title, strange typography and a strange cover like severed card, stylish, but strange. That first novel had a lot of white spaces, a misquotation from Emily Dickinson as the title, and a focus on Ted Hughes and a Crow.
His immense size and presence were followed by star-power that was even larger than the man himself. The build-up to it was done really well and it lived up to the hype. It provides a well-rounded view on Andre Roussimoff the man in contrast to Andre the Giant the performer. Andre spent decades wrestling the globe. He holds a place in the inaugural WWE Hall of Fame which took place in , two months after his tragic passing.
No real specific items here except that Canadian Imperial CM has had a nice dividend with increasing it each quarter, however — currency translation has been impacting the amount us US citizens receive. Similarly, Total TOT is still paying a heft dividend even though they are going through the oil headwinds as well. I separate these two, as I like to know what portion of my dividend income is coming from those retirement accounts that I cannot touch until To see my portfolio — one can go to our portfolio summary page.