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Free People Read Freely*
It seems especially fitting to celebrate Banned Books Week this year, a year that sees a vice-presidential candidate on a majoy party ticket who tried to fire a town librarian for refusing to cooperate with book-banning.
Visit the site linked above for a list of things you can do to support Banned Books Week, and also for a list of frequently challenged books. Seems like a good time to re-read Slaughterhouse Five.
* Free People Read Freely is a registered trademark of the American Library Association.
Making Use of All That Time
Jury duty seemed the perfect time to start breaking in the Total Knitting Tote Scott gave me for my birthday last November. So I carefully packed with with the right side of Arwen and a fresh yarn cake, because I’m near the end of the current one. I had visions of using all this wonderful time with no distractions to knit like crazy.
Total rows knitted on Arwen during jury duty: 8
Instead, I’ve been spending my time reading the most ridiculous drivel of a novel I’ve read in ages. I picked it up at the CVS across the street from the courthouse when I went in for tampons.* It’s a Mary Higgins Clark novel called, something like, I Heard That Song Before. This book is so poorly written and silly, but for some reason I’m sucked in and spending all my jury time reading it instead of knitting. Maybe it’s because it’s set in Englewood, NJ and MHC makes sure to make sure the reader understands that part of Bergen County. (Nick Greco was driving through Cresskill, a town near Englewood.) It’s all just so absurd, and I can’t stop reading it.
I just remembered that MHC does live somewhere around there, because when I worked at a bank in Hillsdale, she was rumored to be one of our customers. So she does know the area well, and now she’s gone and proved it in a novel.
*Yes, my period arrived on May 7, exactly on schedule. But did I have tampons packed in my bag? Of course not.
