March 11, 2007
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Aw, we're going to lose an hour this weekend.
Don't forget to spring forward. It's odd how losing an hour can somehow really mess up my internal schedule for the next few weeks.
I finished reading The Stolen Child, playing off the ancient folk legend about changelings. It was really good! I stayed up till 3 am this morning trying to finish it. I have a green cloth covered notebook that I write in after I finish reading a book. I started recording in it in 2001. It's like a book report, to help me remember what I read. Otherwise, it so quickly leaves me. I usually just write a page, but this time I wrote two! I love flipping through this little notebook, such a treasury of stories and characters.
The one I'm reading now is a short novel called Miss Lonelyhearts, first published in 1933. I got it used through Amazon. It was supposed to be in "very good" condition but it's all marked up inside! I don't like novels all marked up! Underlines and circled sentences and stars next to paragraphs.
This might have been what the three little bears felt when they found that somebody had been eating their porridge!
It's about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column, like a male "Dear Abby". He answers questions with trite, hopeful cliches. But in reality, he is hardly better off than his readers. It's supposed to be a satire on American decay. This actually kind of feels like one of those books we used to read in English classes.
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i heard on the news that you can get ready for daylight savings by eating and sleeping an hour earlier starting FRIDAY of the weekend before the change. oops, better luck next year!
haha, and staying up till 3am doesn't really help. 
i wanna read for funnn too.
Yes... I miss the hour... on the + note, we get to play outside longer because of the latter time of sunset. Have you read When Generations Collide by Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman? I totally recommend it for anyone who works with people of mult-generations...
Thanks for the info!
Oooh, the 'Stolen Child' sounds like a good book. Thanks for the recommendation.
oh i agree with etoiledelune, please let me know of other good fiction books you have read cuz i just got a library card and am SUPER excited to use it. i heart public libraries
"This might have been what the three little bears felt when they found that somebody had been eating their porridge!" hahah you are soo cute, i would have never thought of such a literary allusion. tee hee
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