Not Allot Of Light

I have been on a reading kick.  I just finished "By the Light of My Father's Smile" by Alice Walker.  Another of my thrift store books.  I had high hopes for this book since Walker won awards for "The Color Purple."   One site on the internet called it a stunning, original work.  But I checked out the NY Times review and they seemed to agree with me.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/reviews/981004.04proset.html

Now I know why the book looked almost new, including the dust jacket, when it was over ten years old.

Glass Castle

Frank has been giving me a hard time that I haven't been reading when I picked up two books at the thrift shop last week.  He couldn't understand why I needed to add more books to my pile.  It is not that I have not been reading - I had three different books going but none of them were grabbing me.

So to show him I started reading one of the new books,  "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls.  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013COVERPROSE.html

Interesting book.  It is a memoir of growing up with very unconventional parents.  A very nomadic existence with not enough food but being positively influenced despite an alcoholic father and a mother who pretty much ignored the kids.

Tulips are Still Out

A couple weeks ago a friend of mine looked out on my web site and commented that I hadn't been out much with my camera.  She was right.  So I have been trying to get out a little more.  The second group of tulips have recently come out in my garden.