Finally I had time to figure out how to do this blog. It's ridiculously simple but I can manage to make even the easiest things to do with computers a big deal. I'm off today and it just happens to be my birthday. This is the twins birthday week. My twin, of course, is Ellen. We are twins born to different mothers. Two days apart, same year. One year we drove our friend Lynn crazy because we celebrated our birthdays the entire year, everywhere we went. That was the Tybee Island year, ah those memories are wonderbar.
I had a long list of things I might want to do today since it is novel to have a day to do whatever I want, but now that the time is here I find I enjoy sitting at home with my books around me, my journal and favorite fountain pen, looking out the window at the birds and squirrels frolicking around my newly blooming daffodils, or buttercups as we used to call them. I have been anxiously watching the daffodils, afraid this would be the year they wouldn't bloom but they did just in time, as always. When we lived in Utah, I sorely missed the early Georgia springs, no daffodils there until - horrors - MAY! But I would call home, and the graceful yellow ladies were faithfully fulfilling my birthday wishes in spite of my absence. Have I told you yet that I'm never moving out of the South again NO MATTER WHAT?!
I have quite a long list of books that I am anxious to read. One of the perils (?) of being a bookseller is that there are a plethora of tomes right at my fingertips, but less time to read than ever before. By the time I get to my beloved book that has waited all day for me to pluck it up and devour the words, my eyes get h e a v y. The other peril is that it's like being at a banquet, so many books, so I nibble here, there, everywhere without ever completing one...Yet, I AM hooked on Andre Dubus forthcoming novel, he is a master of taking a seemingly innocent act and making a kaliedoscope of inescapable consequences, and pulling that scarlet thread of tension that keeps you turning pages as fast as you can. And that's what I'm off to do right now, hook up with Andre.
Let me know what ya'll are reading out there, and next time I'll give you my list of favorites and wanna reads.
Cheers!
karen aka pchy
Alas! Ya'll have finally moved into the space age! Way to go! Keep on keeping us uninformed dumbmasses up to date on happenings and BOOKS!
Utrabbi