Halfway to Hollywood / Michael Palin

Halfway to Hollywood: diaries 1980-1988 / Michael Palin. 621 pp.

This is volume 2 of Palin's diaries (I read vol. 1 when it came out a few years ago). He has such a sensible voice. Much of what he writes about is professional--how the writing's going on his next movie, how the shooting's going on this acting job, whether the Pythons will fire their manager--but the regular-life bits, like interviewing headmasters to figure out which school his son will be attending, or taking his mother's elderly neighbor to church--are treated with just as much importance. The diaries are very dense but I never want to put them down once I start.