Clocks Back

I picked up the Moomintroll collection today. Thunderball is a slow read. This may be because I have seen the movie and the copyright page says that the book is based on a screen treatment by Fleming and another writer named McKlory. Mind you there is nothing unpleasant about having Sean Connery traipse around in one's imagination but ..... So I started Boots and that Seven Leagues and now I've run into the problem of the "defining" book.

It's one of those stories where the first person narrator presumes that the reader knows nothing about the context of the story and so explains every "new" term. *sigh*

I should be reading the Rachel Carson biography for the book group but that doesn't meet until Tuesday. So many books and yet none to read.

And I haven't started my word count for NaNo yet.

I did get the pilot light lit today though. Heat is nice.

Then the weather was in the upper 70's today.****CV

Newsy news

Thank you Paula for the prezzies:) If I had a digital camera it would be up, so all of you will have to imagine a box of dark chocolate (mine!); a spiral bound note book with lined pages hidden behind a Kincaidian cover waiting to be filled with stories; the Writer's Workshop In a Book book (edited by Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez and yet more candies. Thank you :)
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My co guide and I talked with the children today about NaNo and they seemed pretty excited. One started writing today:

C: "I'm going to write 50K!"

Me: Oh?

C: "Well, me and A. agreed to do 1K but if we make that before the end of the month we're doing 50K"

Me: Uhhuh.

Nothing like reasonable expectations *g*
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I finished From Russia With Love last night and it left me wondering if Ian Fleming felt the same way about Bond as Arthur Conan Doyle was said to have felt about Sherlock Holmes and if that would explain why the story ended that away it did. So I picked up Thunderball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service tonight. I also have Isaak Dinesen's Last Tales, a copy of Bullfinch's Mythology, M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman, Boots and the Seven Leagues, and I saw that the collected Moomintroll comics volume 2 is available.

AND Charles DeLint has a new book coming out in spring called Dingo! AND Nick Cave has a new album due out at the same time!

Kinda makes up for the two really strange guys I've run across this week *shudder* Neither of whom was named Rafe and yet I have met a person of said name this week. Why does that name sound like it was picked out of a gothic book?
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Yes I am doing NANo this month. Why do you ask?******CV

And there are days.....

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My apologies if I concerned anyone with the last post. This transition between stages is a prickly one and I felt the image expressed it well, with all its inherant potential for beauty as well as risk.
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Browsing today in the science section of Powells I recieved a phone call offering to help defray my flight expenses. Imagine my surprise. Then I found a McKinley book, then I found the Moomintroll comic strip anthology, and I now have Hexwood, by Dianna Wynne Jones.
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So there are days; and there are days***CV