This weekend I did a lot of things I’ve been meaning to do for awhile, including covering my paperbacks with contact paper. And in the process of doing this, I got started reading Harriet the Spy, which I haven’t read for ages and ages. What a good book it is! Harriet is an eleven-year-old girl who wants to be a spy, and she goes around spying on people and writing down everything she sees, and trying to figure out grown-ups. I identified so strongly with Harriet when I was a kid. I once got into huge trouble for writing a…
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This is one of about five billion books my father got for my mother for Christmas. My mother loves to get a bunch of books for Christmas, so this year my father made a humongous effort to think of and buy books for her that she would enjoy, so at the end of the day she’d have a great big stack of new books to read. What’s nicer than that, eh? And I swiped it today and read it on the drive to the farm for our family Christmas. (Hm, that paragraph sounds ridiculously wholesome. I made a sneery face…
4 CommentsI think I’ve read this book before. Not in the sense of having actually read it before, but in the sense of read books exactly like it before (but better). Plus it does that thing I hate of having dozens and dozens of capitalized words all the time. Did anyone see this cartoon? I think the same graph can be used but with “Number of Words Capitalized In Order To Make Them Sound Cool And Important” on the X axis. I’ve had a stressful week this week, and every evening before I went to bed, my only free time of…
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