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Hallelujah, I’m reading again.  Oh, joy!  Somehow on vacation, when the little one goes to bed, I can stretch out on a couch and immerse myself in other places, other lives.  The luxury!

I’ve finished two books in the two days we’ve been on our sunny and lazy vacay.  Yep, that’s how good it’s been.  The first, Blame by Michelle Huneven was recommended by the Oprah Magazine as unputdownable.  I can’t say it lived up to expectations, but it wasn’t shabbily written, and it did contain a bittersweet surprise at the end.  Thing is: I kinda knew it was coming, so it didn’t astonish me.

The second, a breathtaking brilliant read, Little Bee by Chris Cleave, managed to “instruct” and at the same time tell a good story.  Amazing, in my opinion.  I can see why it received rave reviews.  I always hesitate to give away the plot of any book.  After all, you have to experience it to understand it, but put simply, it’s about a young Nigerian immigrant girl who has ties to a UK fashion rag editor.  Somehow their lives intersect momentously twice, and their stories, intertwined in such a horrible and sorrowful way, propel the story forward quite rapidly.  The voices are exquisite, the narrative creative.   I wish I had written it.

I’m in the middle of Mary Karr’s Lit right now.  So far, so good.

Today, I’m guest blogging on Cheerio Road, my friend Maezen’s blog.  The subject is pain, and how we immediately react to it, when in and of itself, it’s not something to label as good or bad.  Isn’t that mind-boggling?  It is to me.

I’m repairing and restoring my engines.  Very soon, I’ll let you in on my favorite holiday tunes.  I’ll divulge all soundtracks, so you, too, can begin to RELAX (yep, RELAX) into the specialness of the season…

I’ll let you in on a dirty little secret.  I love Christmas music so much that my husband has begged me not to start up with Christmas music until after Thanksgiving.  I honor his wishes.  That’s why the songs have to be really, really good.  Isn’t that funny?

So, hold onto your britches.  Maybe I’ll even post them tomorrow.  Yeah, wouldn’t that be something?

Until then…

[Post image: Elissa and Liliana by the sea]

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