Hi! I'm up freakishly early. I guess that's what happens when you fall asleep freakishly early. I'm not complaining, though - I feel well-rested.

Yesterday I went to an in-law event and met D's cousin's new baby. She only weighs 11 pounds, is about 7 weeks old, and looks like a sweet-faced potato. A potato in the most charming sense. It's one of those cases where she looks exactly like her mom, as if the father's genes were skipped over altogether. I held her for a few minutes and she listed to the right. Apparently she doesn't like to be upright - she is always, always leaning to the right. Holding her was almost enough to make me want another one (with emphasis on the "almost").

A strange thing has happened. I'm without a book. There's simply nothing that's grabbing me right now. However, on my Amazon wish list, which is annotated with the month each book will come out (okay, I can't believe I admitted that), there are a few good books coming out in April. So I'm looking forward to that.

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BabelBabe said…
did i ask you already if you've read One Thousand White Women?
11:57 AM
Bearette said…
No, is it any good?
12:04 PM
Bearette said…
I ended up getting 2 books at Borders, so the crisis was averted :)
5:48 PM
blackcrag said…
Instead of looking forward to a book release, look back. Try a classic, like a Bronte sister, or Dickens. Or something that is out of your usual genre, like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (actually a philosophy tome not a mechanical text) which is keeping company with Superfreakonomics (a hilarious look at the weird effects of economics in action, such as how the standard of living for a prostitute has declined and how to catch a terrorist through his bank records) which are keeping each other company on my bedside table right now.
10:47 PM
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