World Book Night

I tend to agree with Anna Quindlen who likens World Book Night to an intellectual Halloween, only better. So, grab your favorite paperback and get ready to curl up on the couch, kids, because tonight’s the night.

The point of World Book Night to land good books in the hands of people who are under-served due to circumstance, income or location. A series of booksellers,  publishers, and librarians will be giving books away for free.

In the US, a committee of librarians, publishers, and booksellers selected 30 titles to distribute, including novels like Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner,” memoirs like Patti Smith’s “Just Kids.”

April 23^rd was selected in honor of Shakespeare and Cervantes, both of whom died on this date. In the Catalan region of Spain, the day is celebrated by giving a book and a flower to a loved one.

My paperback gift-grab will be The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. I’ve been reading it with N and it’s simply delightful.

Closing An Open Sky

Photo Credit Nannette Day of Norfolk, NE

ninja sensei

I had a coffee date last Sunday. N was interested in tagging along for the car ride downtown. She wanted to go to the library just down the street from my coffee date at NuVibe.

I splurged on buying my kid a smoothie, stepped toward the picture windows and pointed her in the right direction toward the library. A block and a half straight-shot in that one direction. Then I hesitated a moment before leaning down to discretely ask whether she was aware she was still wearing her ninja mask?

She rolled her eyes at me. Slurped the smoothie through its straw, and squared the face piece of her mask over her nose. Without a word she walked out the glass door, into downtown Lincoln, without a speck of self-consciousness. 
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Recent Goodness: This blogpost from the Lily Pad site detailing ten things she'd tell a teenage girl. As M observed point ten on the list is spot on. So much so that it hurts and heals a little to read.

Story Du Jour

K was travelling on business. A thirty-hour, whirlwind trip to Ohio which involved red-eye flights and finalizing a Powerpoint presentation at the same time as chatting up the taxi cab driver. 

I have no details of the presentation itself. Zero. Zip. Nada. But, evidently, the day ended with a foot rub and a chocolate martini. 

Sigh. Don’t you just love happy endings?