Metacognition, Sullivan, Vargas Llosa, Mags

I've read an issue of National Examiner, an issue of The New Yorker, and an issue of The New Scientist since my last post. I read two volumes of essays on metacognition, by McKinnon, Waller et al. I will be taking notes from only one essay, but I am increasingly thinking that my work is difficult for people to use because it requires metacognition. I read Vargas Llosa's Green House. Uh-oh, I thought, I've ordered everything he's ever written, and I don't like this first book. And I read Sullivan's Au dela de Dieu. This essay on paradoxes was written philosophically, it seemed to me, even mystically. But I read it because it was recommended to me as fantastic, but I didn't think it was that earth-shaking.