S. Anderson, Pocket Dialer Extraordinaire

CHICAGO -- At 11:17 p.m. last night, I got a call from Steph. Since I was tucked in to bed with a 6:00 a.m. wake-up time looming, I didn't answer and diverted the call to voicemail. The phone twinkled with a left message and I proceeded with my slumbering.

I checked the message this morning, hoping for a great tale of bizarre dead animal plane cargo or moose attacks, and listened with waning interest as Steph explained to a stranger where the public bulletin boards in Homer are, with respect to the town stop sign.

Just Another Day in Homer

One Book Meme

Liz told me to do this.  Actually, she "tagged" me for this "meme."  I have no idea what a "meme" is, nor how to pronounce it, and I think that tagging is probably offensive in some states. However, blogging seems to be the best way to keep in touch with Liz these days (she has better excuses than most of you, so don't even try to "tag," "poke," or flick anything at me), so I will oblige her glorified chain letter. Also, it's been forever since I've posted anything and Anna doesn't really seem to be pulling her weight, so I can be flattered by one of my friends assuming that I am a reader.

One Book that Changed Your Life: books don't change people.  people change people... or is that guns?  If you insist on an answer: West with the Night by Beryl Markham.  I still cannot believe that a book of this quality has been in print my entire life, and only one person ever mentioned it to me.  To quote Nicholas Bayard: "I envy people that haven't read it yet." (it should be noted that Nicholas said this about the Harry Potter series.)

One Book that you've Read More Than Once: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

One Book that you'd want on a Desert Island: (I'll copy Liz here) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

One Book that made you Laugh: Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner... outloud. on the DC metro. on the way to work. embarrassing.

One Book that made you Cry: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett... but I think this is because the lovers FINALLY got married in this book that drags on and on and on. It might have been tears of exhaustion.

One Book you wish had been Written: mine.  I gotta stop filling in book quizzes and get back to the typewriter.

One Book you wish had Never been Written: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek.  I only finished it because I was in Austria and desperate for a book in English and got this as a hand off from someone.  I would have been better off reading Coke cans.

One Book you're currently Reading: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

One Book you've been meaning to Read:Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.  So will everyone stop going on about it and let me get to it? Thank you.