So it was a little nice to learn some grammar. I won't go to the point of saying that we should learn some all the time because that would make me cry. Anyway, I also didn't learn any grammar in high school and probably also know more grammar rules in French than I do in English. So it was probably a good thing that we had the grammar discussion the other day. Hopefully I absorbed something and my writing won't be so grammatically incorrect in the future.
I really liked "Taste". The author did an amazing job of taking something that could be really boring, half an hour of a dinner party, and made it very interesting with a lot of high energy and tension. I also I really liked how we learn nothing about the narrator except what we can filter out from the way he is telling the story. I think this is a really great thing because the narrator wasn't the focus of the story, so it was fitting for him to kind of be the uninvolved observer. It manages to give you the feeling of reading from an omnipotent point of view, while keeping us a little more personally involved in the story.