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I write two columns for the Louise Riley blog. In one, I indulge my love of travelling, and in the other, I am the lazy reader, the one who likes happy books thinner than a phone book.
One of my heros is Richard Burton, the Middle Eastern and African explorer. He immersed himself in cultures, learning their languages, religions and customs. He travelled widely and translated books. We gave our son the middle name of Burton in his honour. Whenever I tell people the story of the middle name they always think of the OTHER Richard Burton, the actor.
As the Lazy Reader, I've just finished an excellent book called Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, which includes a fictionalization of Richard Burton, the actor. The Other Richard Burton is best known for having an affair with Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the movie Cleopatra, and later marrying her twice. He is one of the "beautiful ruins" of this novel.
Beautiful Ruins is set in Italy in early 1960s. The novel tells the story of Dee Moray, a young American actress who has a minor role as a servant in the movie Cleopatra. She has an affair with Richard Burton, who is having an affair with Elizabeth Taylor as well. A canny publicist is brought in to salvage the overspent movie, and he realizes the promotional value of the scandal. When Dee becomes pregnant by Richard, the publicist tricks Dee into leaving for a small town in the Cinque Terre in Italy so that Richard will go back to Elizabeth. The town of Porto Vergogna is another beautiful ruin, where Dee meets the local inn keeper Pasquale.
This book is full of interesting characters, and it's structured to pull you along as you wonder what will happen to them all. I highly recommend it, both as the lazy reader, and to read on the deck chair of a ship crossing the Pacific Ocean on an imaginary Around the World in 80 Days voyage!
Here's a happy book, and a funny book too, with a happy ever after ending. The only wrinkle- is there anything to discuss at bookclub? Do angst filled novels lend themselves to discussion and dissection better than happy ones? Perhaps the book club conversation could broaden to what makes everyone happy, and then everyone could proceed directly to the wine and food!
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson bucks the rules of fiction, which usually requires that the protagonist discover his flaw and struggle to overcome it. It's a fun satire on the usual mystery, with plot coincidences that would make a soap opera writer proud!The most dispassionate of protagonists, Allan is 100, and very tired of the nursing home matron who won't let him drink his vodka. He makes a run for it. Allan doesn't need to change one bit. It's the world and reader who need to change to understand Allan's trust that everything will turn out as it needs to turn out. Allan calmly proceeds through every event of note in the 20th century, unflappable and self sufficient.So why does this work? Usually I would dislike a book that was empty of any personal growth in the protagonist. It would feel like the mechanical churning of plot. This book breaks the rules of luck and coincidence as well. And yet. Perhaps it is this flaunting of all the rules that charms with a Rube Goldberg of a plot. Perhaps it is the reader who is changed, by thinking, "You know, perhaps Allan might teach me a thing or two about being open minded and adaptable."Allan's flaws didn't shape a crisis and epiphany. The people in the world with all their theories and doctrines have the flaw, and if they chose to have an epiphany after reading this book, well that would be just fine with Alan. He would drink to that!
Perhaps you will too.
Oh I've been a lazy blogger, as well as a lazy reader! I'm still searching for those great happy book club choices...
For those that love a crackling plot, look no further than Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. A mystery told alternately by a battling husband and wife, this convoluted plot is full of red herrings and twists. It is almost impossible to put down once you start. Lots of interesting topics to discuss at book club about the relations between the sexes!
For some nonfiction, try Quiet by Susan Cain. It's about the motivations of introverts, and what they bring to the world. Then the book club can check in with their introverted members to get their take on the subject! Another non fiction choice is Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott. In this wise and honest book she interweaves stories and practical advice.
If you love bookstores, you may go crazy over Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane. This is The Da Vinci Code for book nerds! I enjoyed thinking about the evolution of searching for information, and the changing publishing world. I also loved how just like in a fairy tale, the hero Clay succeeds in his quest not because he is strongest or smartest, but because he is a good friend who can assemble a team for a quest.
The book whose language and characters have stayed in my head the most is Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues. I can hear the narrator Sid Griffiths speaking in his slang about his jazz band in World War II Europe. The language can be a little daunting, so I checked out a bookcd. That way the words flowed into my brain, and I didn't get hung up on a meaning of a particular word. Just like listening to Shakespeare, I relaxed, and the meaning flowed in.
These books aren't "funny haha", and in fact Half Blood Blues and Gone Girl are sad. Paired with some good friends, wine and conversation, however, I promise that you will have a happy ending to your reading.
The Lazy Reader just finished a delightful novel called The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty. It is a character piece about the relationship between two women. Cora is a sensitive and conservative wife and mother in 1920's Wichita, Kansas. A fictitious character, she offers to accompany a real person, future screen actress Louise Brooks, to New York for dance training. Cora has a personal motive for offering to play chaperone which she is too private to reveal to Louise. I would recommend this to readers who like character driven historical fiction. There isn't a tightly wound plot, but evocative scenes that convey rare moments of understanding between people, and how two people influence each other. I enjoyed the setting of New York in the 1920s, when social mores were shifting.
The lazy reader is miffed because she was going to recommend Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, but the Book Snob has beaten her to the punch. Please take this as a warning about the hazards of laziness and set strict goals for yourself in 2013.
The lazy reader has been so busy reading she forgot to write some reviews. Here's a rundown on some fall reads you might enjoy:
If you liked Bossypants by Tina Fey you might want to try Ali in Wonderland by Alexandra Wentworth. She's great at delivering punch lines about her life as a rich kid in Washington, actress in Los Angeles, and mother back in Washington. I found her more entertaining than Mindy Kaling, whose Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) is also touted as a successor to Bossypants. Mindy was just too young for my middle age patience. I also tried to like another supposed Bossypants readalike, Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, but her childhood was so sad it was depressing.
If you liked Pride and Prejudice, you will enjoy Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James. This is more successful than other Jane Austen sequels I've read because P.D. James has perfect dialogue. And it ends in a marriage, naturally.
If you liked the Graceling/Fire/Bitterblue trilogy of young adult fantasies by Kristen Cashore (aren't we all stealing out of the YA section these days?) you might want to try Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. Seraphina is half human, and half dragon, and this imaginative story presents an intriguing new world and tough heroine. It's the start of a series.
If you liked How To Be Good by Nick Hornby, you might like the zany world of Christopher Moore. I zoomed through A Dirty Job about Charlie Fletcher, who discovers he is a death merchant responsible for transferring soul vessels. That plot summary gives a good sense of Moore's interests. Warning- Moore doesn't let concerns about losing the reader in gleeful idiocy get in the way of a Badump bump pun.
If you liked Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, you might like The Hare With the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal. He's an artist who researches the history behind his family's netsuke collection. These small carved Japanese animals and people were collected by his great uncle. He tells the story of the various owners through the 20th century, as they move around the world.
If you liked The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson, you might enjoy Object of Beauty by Steve Martin. It's the story of Lacey, a beautiful, smart and amoral art dealer in New York. If you are curious about modern art and/or interested in the life of an ambitious golden girl, you might enjoy it. I also liked it because I learned about the modern art business on the side. It's always good to get a little nonfiction learning in on the side during a great story!
If you liked A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, you will enjoy the heft and drama of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. This one didn't please the lazy reader because it broke the "nothing thicker than a phone book" rule. However, everyone else in book club liked this story about two doctor twins in Ethiopia, so I'll mention it for those with perseverance.
If you liked Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert you might like Wild by Cheryl Strayed. It's a nonfiction biography of the author's life changing hike on the Pacific Coast Trail. However, since Oprah has been promoting the novel, it is unlikely there are many out there who haven't read this one!
The Lazy Reader claims to ski. She gets up and goes to the slopes, but secretly there is a novel in that backpack hiding under the goggles and mitts. After 10 runs, the lazy reader can be found curled up drinking tea and reading in the ski lounge.
The Hotlist is a list of upcoming bestsellers. You can take a look at it on the top of the Readers' Nooks stand at Riley, right beside the Lazy reader recommendations. Here are some holds to place now before the queue builds!
Alan Bradley has a new Flavia de Luce mystery called Speaking From Among the Bones. (Feb. 2013)
Tracy Chevalier, who wrote The Girl With the Pearl Earring, has written The Last Runaway about the Underground Railroad. (Jan. 2013)
Edward Rutherfurd, who writes big thick novels about the history of families over time in famous cities, has set his sights on Paris. (April 2013)
For non fiction, Anne Lamott has written Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, due in November 2012.
Michael Pollan, who wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma, is back in April 2013 with Cooked: Finding Ourselves in the Kitchen.
I'm also going to try Julia Sweeney's If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother about parenting, because I just finished Ali in Wonderland, and need another funny take on the balancing act of women.
Happy couch time!
The Lazy reader recommends books for bookclubs: not too long, not too sad, and a little humour thrown in!
Popular favourites: The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Help, The Imperfectionists, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Water for Elephants
A little more literary: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Generosity: An Enhancement, State of Wonder
Fun mysteries: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Thirteenth Tale
Non fiction to discuss: Bossypants, Dreams of Trespass, The Film Club, The Horse Boy, Julie and Julia, Me Talk Pretty One Day, West with the Night, The Happiness Project
Quirky characters: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The Family Fang, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutman, Come Thou Tortoise
Fantasy favourites: The Night Circus, Wicked, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Graceling
When you're on holiday, why read a dry list of dates and events to learn the history of a place? There are glossy paperbacks to fill that need! I was going to London, England, the home of Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Although I haven't seen her wax figurines, I was curious about the life story of this London institution. And then I chanced upon Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran. It turns out Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholz, and she spent her early years in Paris, modeling wax figures of the royal family. Michelle weaves a story around this volatile time during the French Revolution. Although Marie teaches sculpting to the King's sister Elisabeth, her step father wisely invites the leading figures of the Revolution to their salon. Thus we meet Robespierre, Danton, Marat, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Duc d'Orleans. Although the story was cliché at times, it was a pleasant way to review French history. And Madame Tussaud, a practical businesswoman in the midst of such turbulent times, is an excellent choice for an historical imagining.
Another pleasant book to read about London is The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart. This is a light romantic comedy set in The Tower of London. Like a frothy lovefest that William Shakespeare or Ingmar Bergman would write, all the many characters find love after misadventures. The main love story is between Balthazar Jones, a beefeater and his wife Hebe who works in Lost and Found for the London Underground subway. Ridiculous and charming, the reviewer that called it a "summer confection" hit the nail on the head. If you've ever visited the Tower of London, you will pick up some historical bits as you're entertained.
I recently read two popular books about teens with special skills. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender is a fantastical tale of Rose who can taste the emotions of people who prepared the food she eats. This isn't as enchanting as it sounds, because Rose's mother is unhappy, and all the emotions flood over her daughter. Rose is also trying to figure out the mystery around her brother, who also has an unusual talent.
I read this at the same time as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which is also about children with magical skills. I preferred the character portrait of a family in Lemon Cake over the more plot driven Unusual Children. ( In fact, I would say a large part of the appeal of Peculiar Children are the accompanying photographs). Underneath the story of fantastical gifts, Lemon Cake is a portrait of a girl being overwhelmed by the world. Watching her learn to cope is a realistic and moving experience.
I should note Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is technically a young adult book. The writing may therefore be of greater appeal to teens. Like many adults, I have been stealing out of the young adult section since they attract such great writers. Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games), Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass) and Libba Bray (Going Bovine) are all amazing fantasy writers worth sneaking into the Teen Zone at Calgary Public Library. Last year my book club read the real world novel Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett, a talented Australian writer for young adults. It was a compelling reminder of the vulnerability of being a teenage girl.
By Kari
Now I have to admit that I'm being influenced by the book snob's suggestions, although I bristle at the suggestion there is anything wrong with sitting on the couch eating Cheetos. To wit, I've just read two literary novels that might leak into his territory a little. But fear not, they are set in warm places, and the second is quite thin!
Brazil and Egypt. I enjoy learning about other places through novels, and in winter it's those warm settings that appeal! State of Wonder by Ann Patchett is the story of Marina, a scientist searching for her missing lab partner Anders in Brazil. First Marina has to find intelligent, single minded Dr. Swenson who lives deep in the Amazon pursuing her research. The first half of the novel is slow as Marina's locked up character is revealed. The reader experiences the same waiting frustration as Marina as she navigates Dr. Swenson's blockades. Then it's up the river into a female version of Heart of Darkness. The plot speeds up as the story explores the clash of western and native culture, whether the end justifies the means, and the pull of motherhood. The novel ends suddenly, with many plot threads still to be worked through. If you like deep exploration of character like in Patchett's Bel Canto, you will enjoy this book.
Anatomy of a Disappearance opens in Alexandria, Egypt. Author Hisham Matar gives us Nuri, a young boy mourning the death of his mother. He falls in love with a beautiful woman named Mona, whom his political dissident father weds. It is an uneasy trio of characters full of hidden motivations. When his father is kidnapped and disappears, Nuri struggles to understand. He slowly unravels the truth, and learns to live with the huge absence of his father. This is also a novel of characters facing terrible challenges.

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A former package store on Alps Road has been evolving into a Chipotle Mexican Grill, the first made-to-order burrito restaurant of its brand in the Athens area. The Chipotle is tucked in between the and .
Chipotle Mexican Grill Coming to Athens
A new Chipotle restaurant is taking shape on Alps Road in Athens, Ga.
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Kimberley Nash
May 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM
The first of its kind? What about Barberitos, Moes, and Willys? I'm as GEEKED about Chipotle as the next person, but it's hardly the first of its kind in Athens.
Perry Parks (Editor)
May 14, 2012 at 02:26 PM
That should read "the first of its brand." It should have been edited that way before you saw the story, so that's weird. Anyway, the point is, it's the first Chipotle, not the first burrito place.
Perry Parks (Editor)
May 17, 2012 at 06:26 PM
Jasmine, We've got an inquiry in to the corporate office.
May 17, 2012 at 08:39 PM
May be great, but there are lots of fantastic locally owned restaurants in this town and that's where we'll be.
May 17, 2012 at 11:26 PM
Sr. Sol, Cali 'n' Tito's, Barberito's (still locally owned if not strictly local), Taco Stand in a hurry. Chipotle is not a locally owned franchise. It is a publicly traded corporate entity I believe.
May 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM
I've tried the burrito places around here and Chipotle just tastes better. I have been hoping for one to open here since I moved to Athens a year ago. Can't wait for it to open!
Kevin Darley
May 29, 2012 at 05:47 PM
Yes, chipotle is not the first burrito place in Athens, but it will be the best by far. I have tried all of them and Chipotle is leaps and bounds beyond in quality. I woul ask for Chipotle ony death bed for my last meal. I'm so happy one is coming for my senior year at UGA.
June 03, 2012 at 04:04 PM
I cannot WAIT for Chipotle to open. I have been waiting for this day for 5 years. Their food is just better than all the other Burrito chains in Athens and when you need a quick, on the go burrito (not a sit down like Sr. Sol, Cali & Titos, etc) Chipotle is going to be THE place to go. So excited. Any news on when it opens?
Tiffany Stevens
June 05, 2012 at 01:48 AM
Hey Annie! We don't have official word yet, but it looks like Chipotle might open mid-June. You can find a little more word here: http://athens.patch.com/articles/chipotle-to-open-mid-june.
June 23, 2012 at 07:58 PM
Great! I'll buy Chipotle stock and go get a Cali n Tito's with my profits!
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Midwives in Guyana bring curriculum into the 21st century In November of 2008, the updating of the national curriculum for midwives in Guyana, a collaborative effort sponsored by PAHO CLAP/WR with USAID funding, was completed. Faculty members from midwifery schools worked with officials from the Ministry of Health, the Division of Health Sciences Education, and the Nursing Council to examine the curriculum which dated from the 1980s. As the stakeholders worked on the new curriculum, efforts were made to incorporate a woman-centered philosophy for maternity care. Additions to the curriculum included content on HIV/AIDS, emergency measures for obstetric hemorrhage, and new skills for neonatal assessment and resuscitation. Consultants from the PAHO/WHO Collaborating center at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing facilitated the effort. Providing high quality education for nurse-midwives in Guyana is difficult because of a significant shortage of faculty members and clinical instructors. Migration of nurse-midwives has decreased their ranks, which makes delivery of pre-service education a real challenge. In-service education and faculty development efforts are handicapped by the nursing and midwifery shortage. PAHO plans to offer on-going faculty development workshops to support a modernized educational model. Nurse-Midwife faculty members showed an interest in learning more internet and computer skills and use of software. The finished curriculum is in a modular format that promotes adult self-directed learning. It was implemented with the class that started in December 2008. Plans for the future include an effort to train faculty who will staff health science skills labs. Additional plans involve evaluation of the curriculum of the community midwives program, which provides midwifery services in rural areas. |
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The hotel has a great location with access to Copley mall and most of the attractions in Boston.
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We really really loved statying at the hotel. The only thing we experienced that was not the best was the noise from the other room when the dance girls were staying in your hotel. It sounded like there were about 10 girls in the room at around 1:00 in the morning and on we did not get any sleep that night at all. We did call down to the front desk and they did tell the room next to us to quiet down. They did quiet down but you can definitely hear right through the door as they still continued to talk through the night.
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Stayed here from Feb 12 to March 2, 2014. No upgrades available at check-in but the front desk staff (Dan G) was very professional and exhibited great service -- thanked me for my loyalty to SPG, walked around the counter to hand me my key card, personally showed me a couple of additional room layouts when I complained that the initial room assignment was too stuffy in layout, spotted me as I was walking to check out, greeted me, and checked me out himself. He was most accommodating and found me a corner room junior suite on the 33rd floor from Feb 16 onwards. I appreciated the effort as having a bit more room helps, especially on a longer stay. Room was spacious and had a great view.
Breakfast buffet at The Huntington is excellent and the best among the SPG hotels in Boston. Platinum amenity provides for free continental buffet, with an option to upgrade to the full buffet for $7.95. The manager regularly comped my breakfast upgrade, which was a nice gesture. With the exception of Marie, wait-staff had inconsistent service and one had poor attitude -- I had walked in for breakfast 5min before closing time on a Saturday and instead of welcoming me and seating me immediately, she loudly asked the hostess "isn't it eleven already" (I can hear what you are saying lady).
Location-wise, Westin Copley is great since it's connected to Copley Mall/Prudential, so one can remain indoors during winter. Many restaurants deliver straight to the room. Food from Ingredients "restaurant" is surprisingly good.
One of the staff called me the night before check-out to ask about my stay, which was a nice touch.
Only grouse is that the Events and Meetings Team is generally unresponsive to email. I had emailed about quotations for a private event prior to my arrival and received no reply. Spoke with the Associate Director for Catering Sales in person more than two weeks ago, was given a tour, and promised that her staff Andrea M. will be in touch via email. Still waiting for my reply. I emailed Amex Concierge in the meantime and got the information I wanted, but I thought that was a clear service lapse there.
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Myself and wife stayed at your hotel in January as we went to Boston to watch the US Skating chapionships. We stayed in a corner suite on the 34th floor and it was absoloutely awesome. The views were spectacular and the proximity to everything downtown was great. And of course if the weather did get nasty you never have to go outside as it it linked up with two great shopping malls. We will certainly stay again and highly recomend this hotel.
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Kidnapping thrillers often lull us into a sense of safety in the opening sequences, showing the normal rhythms of life that will soon be shattered. Denis Villeneuve's "Prisoners" does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun. We hear a prayer being intoned. Boom, the deer goes down. The camera pulls back to show a father (Hugh Jackman) and teenage son (Dylan Minnette), in day-glo hunting gear staring at their kill through the ranks of bare trees. On the drive home, the father, who seems humorless, intense, and a bit of a bore, lectures the son on how to always be prepared for the worst in life.
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Keller Dover (Jackman) is an independent contractor who lives with his wife Grace (Maria Bello) and two kids in a suburban neighborhood. He loves Bruce Springsteen, "The Star-Spangled Banner," hunting, and hoarding canned goods, gas masks, and survivalist gadgets in his basement. On Thanksgiving, the Dovers go to dinner with a neighboring family, Franklin and Nancy Birch (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis), who have two kids the same age. While the parents drink wine and talk in the living room, the two little girls ask if they can take a walk. It is a walk from which they do not return. Panic ensues, especially when it becomes clear that a creepy RV, which had been seen parked in the neighborhood earlier, has vanished. Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) is assigned to the case.
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Hugh Jackman huffs and puffs and screams and roars throughout the film, and it becomes monotonous, but what all that behavior tells us is that this is a weak man who needs to feel powerful. In one telling moment, while murmuring the "Our Father," he is unable to say "as we forgive those who trespass against us." He has a veritable arsenal in his basement, his family could withstand a mustard gas attack as well as the Zombie Apocalypse, but he couldn't protect his daughter on a simple walk through a safe neighborhood. And he's so convinced that Alex Jones is the guy that he is blind to other possibilities. Meanwhile, his wife lies in bed, tranquilizing herself into a stupor.
Gyllenhaal is great here in a role that must have looked rather uninteresting on the page. Aaron Guzikowski's script, so packed with religious symbols that verges on a sermon, is excellent in its spare and compelling portrait of Loki. The only image of the character outside the context of his job is his introductory scene, eating Thanksgiving dinner in an empty, fluorescent-lit Chinese restaurant as the rain batters down outside. The only thing we learn about his past is that he was in a boys' home and was raised in foster care. His knuckles and neck are sprinkled with tattoos, including a cross on one thumb. He's got a facial tic. We meet a lot of creeps in "Prisoners", and you get the sense that Detective Loki could have been one of them if he hadn't become a cop. It's a nice performance from Gyllenhaal, and its subtlety is welcome considering all the teeth gnashing going on in other performances.
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An updated version of their popular 6BAR model, Marvel's 6BARM Two-Zone Beverage & Wine Refrigerator features the exclusive MicroSentry refrigeration monitor and distinct temperature zones for both wine and beverage storage. The MicroSentry system ensures a constant and precise internal temperature and alerts you with a visual and audible alarm if the temperature goes above or below the set point for an extended period. An amber LED display shows the temperature in real time, while intuitive digital touch controls allow you to easily adjust the thermostat.
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What Happens if Correlations Change?
The chart is a very near term comparison of the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and Bank of America (BAC). For the last couple of weeks the correlation between the two is pretty tight. If you zoom out for just about any other period the correlation is very low and often is negative including for most of 2011.
Obviously there is not much information in a two week chart but it does serve as an example of the extent to which correlations can change. In 2008 there was a stretch from March to October where GLD and the S&P 500 took different paths to the same 25% decline. What has started recently may or may not continue (obvious statement) which makes the point that the various relationships between asset classes can and do change periodically.
The bigger threat looming out there in this regard is the relationship between iShares Barclays 20+ Year Bond ETF (TLT), and other similar products, and domestic equities. TLT did very well in 2008 rising 23% (most of that coming in the last two months of the year) making for another year where the Permanent Portfolio performed quite well on a relative basis.
I think a lot of people are relying on the relationship between long bonds and equities to continue as it has. Predicting that the relationship might change is obviously difficult to do and not really my intention so much as to point out that if interest rates were to go up a lot and stocks were to go down a lot at the same time that it would cause market pandemonium the likes of which not too many of us have seen.
I've made the case numerous times that prices for bonds are very high and I would have thought rates would have started going up by now. While this has obviously been incorrect, the prices are still high and so the risk is still there.
Zooming out a little it is a good idea to understand what assumptions your portfolio is relying on and what the consequence would be if the things you are relying on do not go your way by some magnitude. For a dramatic example all those mutual funds that were grossly overweight financials in 2008 got crushed not just in absolute terms but also relative terms. This year we were right about being underweight financials and having cash raised but were wrong for the year for having a lot of foreign exposure netting out to an incredibly unremarkable result versus the benchmark.
An ongoing part of my process is trying to understand what would happen if the assumptions embedded into the portfolio don't work out for some finite period of time. I believe long term portfolio success comes from not getting blown up on the occasions where you are wrong--staying disciplined to a defensive strategy and avoiding a large chuck of a big decline helps too.
15 comments:
- Anonymous Texan said...
Nice post on Seeking Alpha this morning.
- Roger Nusbaum said...
thank you
- Paul said...
Will you comment a little further on deflation, disinflation and inflation? With gold on a slide, the euro approaching parity, world deleveraging, and the US consumer only shopping the "blue light specials" - seems that the economic climate is vastly more complicated than ever before and deflation may be taking hold. Thoughts?
- Roger Nusbaum said...
Paul, that makes for a good blog post (for tomorrow).
Thanks Paul - 7:52 AM
- Paul said...
Glad I can provide fodder!
- Anonymous said...
Paul said:...seems the economic climate is vastly more complicated than ever before...
Roger, can you add some historical such as oil embargoes, the U.S. going off the gold standard, a president resigning in disgrace, a V.P. indicted and thrown out of office and on the bright side, a 15 trillion dollar GDP in an economy that has been growing ever so slightly for the past 22 months. Hysteria is one thing but IMHO, things are not nearly as bad as some other periods. - 8:33 AM
- Ken Faulkenberry, ArborInvestmentPlanner.com said...
Excellent risk management article Roger. Asset correlations are definitly in flux, but mostly becoming more positive. This is making diversification harder to achieve. Some of the increasd correlation can be attributed to the Risk ON, Risk OFF Trade. I have writtin an article titled "What is the Risk On, Risk Off Trade and How Has it Affected Asset Correlation" for anyone interested at:
http://blog.arborinvestmentplanner.com/2011/11/what-is-the-risk-on-risk-off-trade-and-how has-it-affected-asset-correlation - 8:39 AM
- Paul said...
Complicated doesn't necessarily mean "bad" - just more moving parts.
- Anonymous said...
I don't feel like looking up the exact numbers, but don't the rolling 1-year correlations between stocks and bonds range between -0.7 and +0.7? I would see nothing unusual with both going down at the same time.
Rich - 9:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
Roger. A few thoughts (my concerns) that you may wish to consider in your post for tomorrow: probably in the middle innings (baseball analogy) of resolution of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression (you have said this before), industrial countries' governments have routinely spent more than they collected in taxes since the 1960s and now have massive public debts to at least service if not pay off (heaven help us if/when interest rates increase to normal levels), taxes must rise, government services must decrease, standards of living--meaning discretionary money left over after paying for essentials and taxes--may (probably will) fall, inflation (hidden tax) may be a/the resolution, increased productivity may help. Thanks, I look forward to your post.
- Roger Nusbaum said...
Rich, you are correct but I don't think people remember that correlations change and I think that if we do have a period of stocks and bond prices both going down it will catch a lot of people positioned incorrectly.
Anon 9:48, I think you are pointing out the lack of political will to do the obvious. I've referred to this as something having to give, or as you point out a couple of things having to give. Tough decisions mean lost elections (I think) and so until that changes I don't know how the tough decisions will be made which makes for a rougher and forced resolution that negatively impacts more people than had the govt done the right thing. - 9:56 AM
- CraigR said...
Hi Roger,
Long Term bonds are going to move depending on interest rates, not what stocks are doing. So I think there is not much of a reason to worry about asset class correlations. Only the interest rates matter.
I actually disagree with the idea of asset class correlations strongly and feel that economic environment is the best predictor of asset movements. I wrote up a blog post explaining my thoughts here:
http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/06/13/asset-class-correlations-its-all-bunk/ - 11:00 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
i tend not to believe that valuations are much of a predictor of anything. knowing something is cheap does not mean it has to go up. of course there are arguments that the market is not now cheap.
- Ryan Melvey said...
I see it similarly to craigr.
I think it is very important to consider the difference between causation and correlation. Stock prices going down does not cause bond prices to go up.
The causation occurs at the macro-economic level. Macro-economics conditions are the causations driving the correlations that we see in asset prices.
When the worry is primarily around deflationary forces, then stocks and long-bonds will generally exhibit negative correlation.
However, if the worry is about inflationary pressures then they generally have a positive correlation.
The asset classes don't have a defined relationship with each other, but instead a relationship with the underlying economy.
From this conceptual framework, it is very hard to imagine a disaster scenario for the PP. What underlying economic condition would drive stocks and bonds to both be dropping for an extended period of time? I would imagine inflation. Which is why the PP holds gold. - 2:24 PM
- Anonymous said...
The price of gold rises with fear, declines with stability. Recent levels of fear have been high. In ten years time fear might be low and the price of gold could have declined a lot from present levels.
Buy a 2.8% yield 30 year treasury now and in ten years time a 20 year treasury might be priced to a 5% yield and have declined -28% in price, wiping out all of the income.
With gold and long dated treasury's perhaps not even providing positive nominal gains, let alone real gains, and pre-tax cash barely pacing inflation, and stocks beating inflation by perhaps 7%, a Permanent Portfolio in total might just barely pace inflation, let alone have grown in real terms - whilst stock investors might have seen their money double in real terms.
The PP has performed well and pulled relatively ahead, accumulating followers in the process. There's no guarantee that that trend will continue. If anything the good fortunes (and number of followers) could see a reversal of trend over the next decade. - 5:39 PM


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