Happy World Book Day!
Hi everyone!
Happy World Book Day — and happy birthday to Shakespeare! If you are kind of a Shakespeare nerd like me, one day when the world is open again, I highly recommend visiting the new Shakespeare’s Globe in London. It made me sooooooo ridiculously happy.
Sunny: It’s World Book Day! Hooray!
Tsunami: Oh, I KNOW.
Sunny: I am going to celebrate by reading my favorite book, Anne-nemone of Green Corals, about a plucky orphan SeaWing with a big imagination and a positive attitude!
Tsunami: I am going to celebrate by not murdering Starflight.
Sunny: …was that…on the agenda before?
Tsunami: HAVE YOU SEEN THE LIBRARY TODAY?
Sunny: Ohhhhhhhhhh.
Tsunami: YES.
Clay: Hey guys, eight more boxes of scrolls just arrived! Didn’t we get like fifteen already this morning? Or did I hunger-hallucinate them?
Peril: I have a question ALSO, which is, exactly who thinks filling the caves I’m stuck in with lots of flammable things is a good idea?
Sunny: Listen, Starflight is panic-buying scrolls from all his favorite independent bookstores, to make sure they survive the pandemic/quarantine/shutdown. It’s a coping mechanism and a mitzvah, Tsunami, be nice to him.
Tsunami (yelling down the hallway): STARFLIGHT! THERE ARE NO STUDENTS HERE RIGHT NOW! WHY ARE YOU RESTOCKING THE LIBRARY LIKE A MANIC SQUID-BRAIN?! WE DO NOT NEED 8,000 NEW SCROLLS!
Starflight (yelling back): They’re not for the students! They’re allllllll for meeeeeeeeee…
Tsunami: ALL of these? Wait, how long do you think this is going to go on for? Long enough to read ALL THESE SCROLLS? AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.
Sunny: Clay, I think we’re going to need some bigger muffins.
In this scenario, I am very much the Starflight, because buying books is basically my comfort food now that I am almost out of Ben & Jerry’s and have to regard any cookies from my husband with deep suspicion. 😉
These are some of the ones I’ve ordered recently and I’m SO excited about them!:
I’ve read Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle before and it’s fantastic, so I bought it for my Broadway-obsessed bear for his birthday — I think he’ll love it, too!
The True Queen is the sequel to Sorceror to the Crown, by Zen Cho, which was AMAZING, so I’m really excited to read this one!
I’ve met Sarah Jean Horwitz and Blair Thornburgh at events/writing retreats and they are both the very coolest, plus who could resist “a contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility” (Ordinary Girls) or “a 12-year-old has to become a Dark Lord” (The Dark Lord Clementine)?
Rainbow Dog thinks I should start with Once & Future, though, because it has been described to me as a genderbent King Arthur retelling with spaceships and I am SO HERE FOR THAT YES PLEASE GIVE IT.
We shall see — I’m trying to train my children to do their schoolwork and THEN reward themselves, by modeling that I am over here, writing my book, totally focused, certainly not sneaking off to read my new exciting stash of novels, no sir. 😉
I did accomplish one thing today, though! I joined Instagram! Why did I do this? Is it a good idea? Maybe because I find Facebook kind of overwhelming and sinister (not YOU on Facebook, of course; YOU are lovely, it’s Facebook itself that worries me!), and I hear this “Instagram” is the happy place? HMMMM. Mostly, though, because I miss you all and thought maybe I could fling pictures of puppies and books and dragon art at you, and that would be fun. 🙂
Also maybe I can figure out Instagram Live and we can all hang out one day? Not, like, tomorrow — I have to wrap my head around all this HIGHFALUTIN’ NEWFANGLED TECHNOGADGETRY first. 😉 But if you’d like to come link up with me, now you can find me there, and please forgive me if it takes me a while to figure out “stories” (these are not the stories I am used to!) and “buttons” and all these mystery symbols. (Let’s see what happens if I click on this ACK WHY IS INSTAGRAM ACCESSING MY MICROPHONE did I just inadvertently share my children’s latest fight with the ENTIRE UNIVERSE ACK!)
Last thing: two more lovely wonderful indie bookstores!
The Bookworm in Omaha, Nebraska
Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
Virtual hugs to all of you! More soon! 🙂