Jeff's Day

Hoppy hoppy bird-day Jeff.
I mean Hippy hippy b-day Jeff.
No, I mean happy happy birthday Jeff.

What I am really trying to say is no one deserves a better, happier, more festive birthday than you Jeff. You are older, wiser, funnier, sweeter, and more content than the average gray bear. Keep the humor in sight and enjoy the year, you premature baby you. I'm glad University Hospital didn't let you die as dad so often accused them.

Happy Birthday dude.

Quote: Don't Postpone Joy

I saw a charming film from 1966, A Man and A Woman. Charming, charming, charming. I was unreasonably happy with the ending. It was French, a little slow, and it had some long montages' but stick with it and be deliciously happy with a charming, charming, charming film.

Book Club

The general consensus for The Graveyard Book was positive. A cautionary tale for the real world and it made the fantasy world a safe place to be. It demystified the "bogeyman" making vampires and ghosts the hero's friends, and it gave children a wondrous world to visit. Much like Treasure Island or Tom Sawyer or the kid in The Black Stallion, no parents. A wildish world for a kid's imagination, besides being creative, clever, well written and fantastical.

Here is the reading list: revised for those who were at book club due to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has a five month waiting list at the King County Library. So get your reserves in or find a used copy, we have pushed it down the list. Thank you Kathleen for the library research.

Aug: War Dance by Sherman Alexie or any other Alexie book, readers choice

I asked Mary Angle of Repose, our original choice for August, was dense and she said, "Well, it has lots of pages and lots of words." My brain just couldn't take a dense book for Aug so we pushed it to September. Now Alexie's books are gritty, but easy to read. So there you have it.

Sep: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, Mary will try to read the companion book, not everyone agreed with Stegner's use of the letters.
Oct: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Nov: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Dec: Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
Jan 2011: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Feb: Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez

So, happy reading and see you in August. Two movies recommended by Kathleen for all the movie buffs: Sequins and Cyrus, so happy watching also.