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Jules: Can someone just pick me up off the floor please, because I love our image for this Sunday, sent to us by G. Brian Karas, who just so happens to be one of our favorite illustrators here at 7-Imp. Doesn’t that illustration just make your day? I’m telling you what . . . we love it, and we thank Brian for sending it. This image comes from Today and Today, the anthology of haiku by Kobayashi Issa, which Karas illustrated (released this March by Scholastic, and reviewed here by Yours Truly). In fact, this illustration is, hands down, my favorite from the book (which is a bold statement, as the entire book is beautiful), so extra big thanks to Brian for sending it just for our 7 Kicks lists today. And, really, if you haven’t experienced Today and Today yet, well . . . go treat yourself. Karas divided the haiku — and the story that those verses and his illustrations tell — into seasons, and this illustration is from the summer spread. I wish I could make it even bigger for you, but that’s probably the best we can do here with our blog’s template. Just look at that yellow and the texture to that image . . . it’s even more beautiful up close, so don’t miss the book, one of the best poetry anthologies I’ve seen this year. (And, P.S., Elaine — this pic’s for you!).
Brian also sent this cover image from his next illustrated book, Big Bad Bunny (a Richard Jackson book for Atheneum Books), written by Franny Billingsley, author of The Folk Keeper (which I have always wanted to read; I’m just eight years behind). Big Bad Bunny will be published in ‘08. Now, that’s a funny cover. We’re looking forward to this book, ’cause did I mention that Eisha and I love G. Brian Karas’ illustrations? (And — as I said in my reviews of Today and Today and Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Hide! — we think the “G” must stand for “ginormously talented”).
Many thanks to Brian!
Now, on to our kicks . . . For any new folks: Welcome to our weekly 7 Kicks list, the meeting ground for listing Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week (whether book-related or not) that happened to you. If you’re new, please know that everyone is welcome to leave their lists.
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Author: N.D. Wilson
Rating: 
Reading Level: 4th to 7th
Pages: 224
Publisher: Random House
Edition: Hardcover, 2007A great survival story, a thrilling adventure, an intriguing mystery, and a tall tale. It reminds me of Paulsen's survival stories but seems to have even more layers and with incredibly enjoyable wry humor: "It was a face deciding what to say and how to say it, and the truth didn't look as if it was a factor in the decision making."
"The bottom of the trash bag was full of boiled crawdad dead. Those remaining in the pool wandered about, confused by the sudden spaciousness."
"Jeffrey was dragged out by his shoulders and then propped up with his back against the couch. The bag was still blood-glued to the back of his head and stood out around it like a white plastic halo."
Yup, a few gruesome scenes: for example: dealing with and collecting useful things from a dead body. I loved those scenes.
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Author: Patrick Carman
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Pages: 330
Publisher: Little, Brown
Edition: Hardcover, 2007This grabbed me and wouldn't let me go the entire time! Instantly, I was intrigued by the
Frankeinstein quote and the strange conversation between the two disembodied voices. Edgar's tale then unfolds with lots of fast paced action and suspenseful plot twists, a cast of well-delineated major and minor characters, and wonderful illustrations (I'd like just a few more... um... maybe a dozen more, of Squire Broel's pencil drawings, actually!) I know that there is quite a bit of environmental message attached and all the science might not be accurately scientific and border on magical elements, but I bought it all: the world, the characters, the events, and wasn't even that distraught to find no ending to this particular portion of the tale.
I was reluctant to start reading the book, since there is a half-wrap dust jacket and a Bonus CD-ROM -- gimmicks that made me skeptical: the book must not be that great if they need to include special cover design and extra materials to draw readers! Glad that I did read it, really glad!
Many thanks to our featured illustrator for this week, Taeeun Yoo. She is sharing with us two illustrations from her picture book title from this year, The Little Red Fish. This book is beautiful and so well-designed, and if you haven’t read it and are interested, Jules’ review of it from this past May is here. In the illustration above, JeJe — who is visiting his grandfather’s strange, rather mysterious little library in the forest — has finally found his pet fish (after falling asleep in the darkness of the library). This illustration depicts what happens when he picks up an old, dusty book next to which he thought he saw his pet’s tail flicker.
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We’ve been tagged! It’s Nancy’s (aka Journey Woman’s) birthday; she’s 39 and asked us to consider thirty-nine reasons to be happy today. Consider it an early
7-(plus some)-Kicks list, but fear not! We’ll still be here on Sunday with our featured illustrator of the week and will be looking forward, as always, to reading your kicks this week.
We’ll divide our 39 reasons amongst the two of us. Here goes:
Jules’ Reasons:
1). It’s Nancy’s birthday!
2). The Alice image that illustrator Frank Dormer did just for us, which we’ll add to our site soon.
3). Corresponding with author/illustrator G. Brian Karas all week and lining up an interview and 7-Kicks-featured illustration with him.
4). Ditto for Mo Willems! (And Eisha and I anxiously awaiting the arrival of Knuffle Bunny, Too at our respective doorsteps).
5). Having a huge stack of Karas books to pore over in preparation for the interview.
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Happy Sunday, and welcome to our weekly 7 Kicks list, the meeting ground for listing Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week (whether book-related or not) that happened to you. (If you’re new, please know that everyone is welcome) . . .
Have you noticed that we’ve gotten into this fun, new tradition of featuring a different illustrator every Sunday? Check out this week’s!
Back at the end of June, Adrienne over at WATAT did up a wonderful post on beginning readers, actually in two parts: Beginning Readers that Don’t Make Me Want Me to Fall Into a Stupor, Parts One and Two. And, as I (Jules, that is) mentioned over at her site, that got me to thinking about the wonderful Aggie and Ben beginning reader (Charlesbridge, 2006), written by Lori Ries and illustrated by Frank Dormer. And good news: There will be a sequel to those three Aggie and Ben stories. So says our featured illustrator this week, Frank W. Dormer, who this week is sharing with us an illustration from — not the upcoming Aggie and Ben title (but we still had to explain how it is that we came to think of Frank Dormer this week!) — but an upcoming picture book title, Not So Tall for Six, written by Dianna Hutts Aston (An Egg is Quiet), coming in ‘08 from Charlesbridge. Isn’t that illustration great? Here’s what Frank had to say about it: (more…)
Welcome once again to our Sunday meeting ground for listing Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week (whether book-related or not) that happened to you. If you’re new, please know that everyone is welcome.
Jules: Normally, we feature a children’s book illustrator here at our lists every Sunday. But this week we are featuring an artist and singer/songwriter musician named Karen Peris. Those of you who read this post of mine from early July may remember who she is. If you missed that, let me briefly explain that Karen is one of three members of one most remarkably wonderful band, entitled The Innocence 
Mission. And, when Karen kindly allowed me to post the lyrics in their entirety to one of her songs (in the post I mention above), I took the opportunity to ask her if we could feature the beautiful art work from the cover of their children’s lullaby CD, Now the Day is Over, released in 2004. Fans of well-crafted children’s CDs may want to know that this is a most excellent collection of standard and traditional lullabies as well as a few song choices not typically considered lullabies that they play and that Karen sings as lullabies (such as, “Once Upon a Summertime,” “What a Wonderful World,” and “Moon River,” which I can promise you is the most gorgeous version of “Moon River” you’ll ever hear). I also must add that there is an original lullaby on this collection of songs (”My Love Goes With You”), written by Karen, that absolutely slays me with its transcendent beauty and includes such nuanced and peaceful and flat-out gorgeous piano-playing by Karen herself (really, it has this perfectly-placed piano note in it that almost makes me weep every time) . . . I could talk lullabies forever. They fascinate me (traditional, contemporary, world lullabies — you name it), and this is one of my favorite lullaby CDs ever ever ever (and I had always hoped they’d do a lullaby CD, when lo and behold! They released one the very year my first daughter was born).
I thought the cover art was very fitting for our blog’s purposes, and Karen sent that image as well as another image from the CD, both sprung from her mind and created by her hands. Aren’t they lovely? (And, as Eisha pointed out, the cover image — while still totally Karen’s creation — has a real Georg Hallensleben feel, does it not? Which is a good thing, in our book) . . .
Thanks so much to Karen. We are thrilled that she was willing to share her art work. Be sure to visit their site if you want some good, new music in your life. The information about the lullaby CD is here (you might want to hear it, whether or not you have children or even if yours are grown. It’s a lovely, peaceful way to end — and start — one’s day). A portion of the proceeds benefits children’s charities.
Next week we’ll get back to another children’s book illustrator, and we’re excited, but you’ll have to come back then, won’t you, to see who it is?
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Happy Sunday to all! Just look at that beautiful illustration this week, compliments of Matt Phelan. The latest issue of The Horn Book includes Susan Patron’s Newbery Medal acceptance speech, and she talked briefly in that speech about having chosen Matt as the illustrator for The Higher Power of Lucky (lauding “his thoughtful, tender, and delicate pictures”). And we here at 7-Imp were reminded how much we like his art work and illustrations, so we contacted him and he agreed to share the above image from his upcoming book, Very Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle (to be published in September by Harcourt).
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Look, everyone, it’s Kate and Rosy and Dave and the whole family there for our
7 Kicks list this week! There’s Kate’s dad, who has relinquished — for Dave’s sake — his favorite, sunniest spot for sitting and reading. And there’s Dave, jumping up exuberantly for a kiss. We are able to bring you this Bob Graham illustration this week (*), thanks to Candlewick. This happens to be the title page spread from Graham’s sequel to “Let’s Get a Pup!” Said Kate, which is entitled “The Trouble with Dogs
. . .” Said Dad — just released by Candlewick in June and reviewed here a couple weeks ago by Jules. We are huge fans of Kate and her family and were excited to see them return. And there seems to be a lot of shared love out there in the kidlitosphere for Kate and Rosy and Dave, so we worked with Candlewick to get permission to share an image from Mr. Graham. We thank him (and Candlewick) kindly, and here’s what he had to say about the new book and some of his other titles, as well (for the record, we decided to link the book titles he mentioned here; it’s not that he instructed us to do so):
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Hello, everybody! Welcome to this week’s edition of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks, our weekly tradition of listing Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week. We’re continuing our recent habit of featuring the work of a different illustrator each week as our post image, with two works from the delightful and talented Jamie Hogan.
You may remember Jamie as the illustrator of Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins, and the creator of the gorgeous portrait included in our interview with Mitali for the SBBT. She’s also not the person one should sit behind when one is attending a drawing lesson given by Ralph Masiello at the Charlesbridge Open House, even if she is very charming and kind in person.
When we asked Jamie for permission to post these images from her website, she graciously agreed, and offered a little background info on them:
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“Both of them are unpublished pieces. I did ‘Sailing to Story Land’ as a gift for my teacher, Judy LaBrasca. She taught a week-long intensive workshop on Picture Books at Maine College of Art. It’s what jump-started my endeavors to do children’s book illustrating and writing. She is the wise owl and the students are all trying to sail, often in turbulent waters, to Story Land (getting published!). The image is divided into 3 parts as a nod to the exquisite corpse exercises we did in class, to spark our ideas.
“During the class, we learned about the genre, looked at tons of books, and worked in class on a thumbnail dummy. Mine was ‘Seven Days of Daisy’ and is a colorful romp through the week of an island pre-schooler. The other piece you chose is from the color version of that dummy, based on a real moment at the beach on Peaks Island, where I live. I get wistul thinking of it, since my daughter and her friends have outgrown the whims of nakedness at the shore. (more…)
Adam Rex is the best thing ever (to pick up Adrienne’s favorite phrase). At last week’s 7-Kicks list, Adam’s name came up and then several of us were discussing our big, big love for his books. So, Eisha asked what the possibility would be of getting an illustration for this week’s list, and Adam sent two, never-seen-before ones. Woo hoo! In his words, “I couldn’t see the fun in simply giving you permission to post something that already appears elsewhere on the web, so I’m sending two images that appear nowhere else I know of.” Thanks, Adam!
Meet J.Lo — to the left here. This illustration is . . . well, here’s what Adam said about it:
“This one is really more in keeping with the spirit of your ‘7 Kicks’ feature. I have an illustrated novel called The True Meaning of Smekday coming out this September . . . I painted the cover, which can also be found on my blog, and drew a lot of black and white illustrations for the interior. For the cover we went with a sort of typographical cityscape, and it always bothered me that I never painted either of my two main characters. So this week I made a portrait of my lead alien, J.Lo. The paint was literally just barely dry enough to scan him and send him to you, so that’s the exciting thing I did this week.”
If you go here, everyone, you can read a brief comic about the upcoming release of the novel (to be published by Hyperion in September 2007).
And then he sent us this illustration, too, page ten of his upcoming fall picture book, Pssst! (Harcourt). “I think if you know nothing of the book but the title and this page, you can still get a decent idea where the story’s heading,” he told us. The book cover, as well as some failed ideas for the book cover and other things, can be found on his blog, Editpus Rex.
Many, many thanks to Adam Rex for the great art work this week!
As usual, we look forward to reading everyone’s lists. We realize a lot of folks are at the ALA conference this weekend, but this will not deter those of us not seminar-hoppin’ in D.C. to share our lists (but, boy, do we wish we were there, too).
{Oh, and here’s our usual intro for any new people: It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks. For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute, and your lists don’t have to be book-related} . . . (more…)
Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers out there! It’s time for our 7 Kicks, but before we get to that, don’t forget the Summer Blog Blast Tour and its inaugural interview today. That would be an interview with Gene Yang over at Finding Wonderland
. Don’t miss it, people. It’s really well-done. And we here at 7-Imp will have our interview with
Brent Hartinger tomorrow and an exclusive interview with
Sonya Hartnett the next day. For our other interviews this week, visit
this link (and
here’s the Grand Master Schedule).
Hey, look up there at our 7 Kicks illustration-of-the-week. It’s Hugo and Miles! Have you read Hugo & Miles in: I’ve Painted Everything (An Adventure in Paris)? (Jules reviewed it here, and here is a February review of Kara LaReau’s Ugly Fish, which Scott also illustrated). Author/illustrator Scott Magoon sent us this illustration for this week’s list; Hugo and Miles there are atop the Eiffel Tower, taking in a grand view of Paris. Thanks to Scott!
And, wait, there’s more . . . Look, it’s an illustration from his upcoming Fall picture book (Houghton Mifflin), called The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating by Alice Weaver Flaherty (a neurologist who teaches at Harvard no less, according to this link). Scott says it’ll be out this September, and we went and found the Houghton link to it. Looks like good stuff. We are fans of Scott’s work, and we thank him for not only the Hugo & Miles art work but the sneak peek Lochness illustration, too.
Okay, let’s get to the lists then. Here’s our usual intro for any new people: It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks. For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute, and your lists don’t have to be book-related. (more…)
Many, many thanks to Sean Qualls for our 7 Kicks illustration this week. This is “Dizzy on Stage” from the fabulous Dizzy by Jonah Winters, published last year (Arthur A. Levine Books). Finally reading this book was one of Jules’ 7 Kicks last week, and we wondered, hey, could we get an illustration from the honorable Mr. Qualls for next week’s list? And here it is! Make sure you don’t miss his site (we were torn between putting up a Dizzy photo or one of the other fabulous non-children’s-lit-related pieces of art work you’ll see there if you click on “illustrations”).
Scott Magoon’s already committed to the illustration for next week’s list! Excellent. Can’t wait to see that one . . .
Okay, let’s get to the lists then. Here’s our usual intro for any new people: It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks. For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute, and your lists don’t have to be book-related. (more…)
LOOK, EVERYBODY! IT’S GRUMPY BIRD! And he’s mustering his best smile for us! Yes, three 7-Imp cheers for Jeremy Tankard, who sent us this illustration for us to kick off our 7-Kicks lists this week. Remember how last week we experimented with a different image for the list (instead of the usual Alice-with-the-White-Queen image)? And then we thought we could use a different illustration every week, and Jules suggested Grumpy Bird (the star of her favorite picture book thus far this year)? And even Adrienne, who wasn’t so sure she could let go of last week’s illustration (which Nancy now owns!), said she’d totally go for Grumpy Bird? Well, just ask and you shall receive. Jeremy says that this illustration of Grumpy Bird is a piece he did for the cover of a French children’s book catalog (we asked for an image of Grumpy Bird actually smiling, if possible, since we’re listing happy things every week, though we would have gladly accepted a grumpy pic, too. Jeremy says, “He looks sort of happy here. He’s smiling at any rate”). Many thanks to Mr. Tankard!
{Speaking of grumpy, one of Jules’ favorite word fun facts — ’cause, yes, she’s a Super Nerd — is that “gruntle” is an actual verb (as in “disgruntled,” of course), meaning “to put in good humor.” Jeremy Tankard has left us gruntled with this illustration. And lordhamercy, go read Grumpy Bird right now if you haven’t already. It’s a fine, fine book} . . .
Okay, let’s get to the lists then. Here’s our usual intro for any new people: It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks. For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute, and your lists don’t have to be book-related. (more…)
New image this week! Thanks to Nancy at Journey Woman, I (Jules, that is) saw this illustration and was led to the illustrator’s site, artista blog. This is the blog of artist Irisz Agocs, who lives in Budapest. Go to her site to see more of her work, ’cause it’s good stuff. I love the feelings this illustration captures. I didn’t officially get Irisz’s permission to use this image, but I’m linking it to her site (thanks, Nancy, for taking us there), and I hope Ms. Agocs won’t mind.
Okay, let’s get to the lists then. Here’s our usual intro for any new people: It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks. For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute.
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1). Usually my lists aren’t in any sort of order in terms of Most Impressive to Least Impressive. I just randomly number them. But, without question, number one this week (as in, THE BEST THING that happened to me) has to be: Having the undisputed honor of reading Billie Standish Was Here, Nancy Crocker’s new YA novel. It will be on the shelves in June, and I hope to talk about it here on the blog on Tuesday (since tomorrow will be our last Blue Rose Girls interview with Libby Koponen). This was one of the most beautiful novels I’ve read in a long, long time. When I put it down, I dunno, I felt like someone had blessed me. It’s utterly perfect and unforgettable. I say: Move over, all other YA titles published thus far this year. Or, really, any titles published thus far this year. (more…)
It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute.
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Whew! It’s been a crazy busy weekend, and it’s still going on, so let me just give you the highlights.
1* Friday night I saw an excellent event sponsored by my fave independent bookstore: Daniel Handler in conversation with Gregory Maguire. The idea was that they would talk about DH’s most recent adult novel, 
Adverbs. But of course, when you have two guys that funny and smart and literate up on a stage… well, they talked about Adverbs, and about how tall Meryl Streep really is, and about the drinking game DH made up based on Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide… Dudes. It was hilarious.
2* And while they were signing books afterwards, we were treated to a performance by a really good local band, Chop! Chop! I’d never heard them before, but I enjoyed it a lot - I was sad there weren’t any CDs to buy. I thought it was an excellent idea to provide entertainment while we stood around in line. Hey, book signing event organizers, take note! (more…)
It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute.
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1* Well, if you read last week’s 7 Kicks post you already know I was in TN meeting my nephew for the very first time. I got to spend almost a whole week in his company, not to mention my mom, my sister (who also flew in from the other coast to meet lil’ Miles), my sister-in-law, and a lot of extended family. My elusive brother even made a brief appearance. It was a great visit. And I am so in love with Miles I just cannot stand it. He is so utterly amazing. Every little thing he does just blows me away. I’m trying very hard not to include a photo here. Very, very hard.
2* But I will show you a picture of Ella Grace. She’s my cousin’s daughter, who was born the same week as Miles even though she wasn’t due until June. She finally got to come home from the hospital - she’s up to 5 lbs, and is doing amazingly well. I can’t even describe what a thing it is to see her. She’s so impossibly tiny, so fragile, but already such a survivor. I don’t use words like “miracle” a lot, but it’s the only word that seems to fit.
3* And, as Jules mentioned, I got to spend an afternoon with her and the girls, which is always a good time. Every time I see Miriam and Ada I am just amazed at how smart, funny, sassy, and beautiful they’re turning out to be. Just like their mom. (more…)
It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute.
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Hi, everyone . . . Eisha is unable to contribute this week, ’cause she’s visiting family — including her stinkin’ cute punkin’ head brand-spankin’-new nephew, Miles. And, in fact, as I was typing my list here, I got some photos of Eisha and Miles in my email folder. I hope Eisha and her sister-in-law don’t mind me sharing one. If you follow our Sunday 7 Kicks lists, you know Eisha’s in love with him and this is the first time she’s met him! So, check out that photo at the bottom of my list. How beautiful is that? . . . And Eisha’s visit to Tennessee to meet Miles leads me to Numero Uno on my 7 Kicks list:
1) Eisha came to visit us this week! Here is a pic of us after a big, ‘ol wonderfully fattening and rather greasy meal of Southern food, which 
Eisha says she’s missed (many thanks to the nice waitress who took the photo and whose name we never got). Those are my kiddos; Ada looks like she’s hiding, and Miriam has lots of ketchup* residue on her face, but they’re stinkin’ cute, if I must say so myself. And I must. So, for those who have ever wondered if this is, indeed, one huge conspiracy and the blog is really being run by one person who likes to pretend she’s two, here’s yet another photo of us in the flesh . . . We really enjoyed Eisha’s visit, and my eldest, Miriam (age three), is in love with her. Yup, pretty much thinks the sun rises and sets in Eisha and wishes she didn’t live so far, far away. But we were all very grateful for her visit.
*How the blazes do you spell that word anyway? Is it “ketchup” if you’re Southern and “catsup” if you’re not?
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It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week.
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1* Last weekend, when we were househunting in Ithaca, the husband’s soon-to-be employer couldn’t get us a room at the usual hotel because of some festival that was going on… so they put us up in a spa resort! With a giant chess board outside! And I-swear-to-god the most amazing mattress I’ve ever slept on. Didn’t have time to try out the free-to-guests sauna, but I’ve never seen what the benefit of sitting around sweating is supposed to be anyway.
2* While staying at said resort, we saw a deer grazing on the lawn through our window Saturday night. And we saw four very brazen deer nonchalantly grazing right next to the highway as we drove home on Sunday afternoon.
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It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week.
*eisha’s list*
Well, it was kind of a weird week, wasn’t it? But we’re here to focus on the good, and that seems like a very good idea right now. So:
1* Since I live in MA, Monday was a state holiday (Patriot’s Day - they’ve got a couple of these weird Revolutionary War-related holidays that no one else celebrates up here). So I had a 3-day weekend, which is always a good thing. (more…)
It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week.
* * * * * * * Jules’ list * * * * * * *
1) Elaine Magliaro’s dedication of an original acrostic poem to me and Eisha. Thanks again, Elaine!
2) MotherReader’s lovely tribute to Kurt Vonnegut.
3) The opportunity to chat with authors and illustrators and editors and other bloggers because of this blog. Eisha and I really enjoyed chatting with Alvina Ling (how multi-faceted is she?) and John Green (who is just so stinkin’ nice) last week, and this week we will feature interviews with author/illustrator Anna Alter (who amazes me) of The Blue Rose Girls and Barbara Kerley of The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins and Walt Whitman: Words for America (two very lovely, lovely books out of a handful of great books she’s written). Why can’t these people pass some of their talent over to me? If only it were that simple . . . (more…)
It’s time for another installment of 7 Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week.
*eisha’s list*
1* Thursday I met Grace Lin. She did a program at my library. In spite of woefully low attendance, and a bizarre series of mishaps that made the day feel slightly cursed (she even had to ride in my cute-but-trashy car Phoebe), she was utterly gracious and adorable and interesting and wonderful, and I think the children who did attend had a very nice time indeed. As did I.
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It’s time for another installment of 7 Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week.
*Jules’ List*
1> The poem “Request” by Franz Wright, which you can read here at Liz Scanlon’s Poetry Friday entry from yesterday. I am in love with this poem, and I thank Liz for introducing me to it (Poetry Friday is such an excellent thing). Amusingly enough, I read — while trying to find more info on Franz Wright — the following: “A five-year-old Franz Wright once reportedly made the following request of his parents: ‘Excuse me. Do you think, because it’s my birthday, we could not talk about poetry today?’” (I read that here; his father was poet James Wright) . . . The poem made me think of another favorite, “The Guitarist Tunes Up,” by Frances Darwin Cornford: (more…)
Yes, we have to make an executive decision and go with “7-Imp’s 7 Kicks” as the title for the new weekend series, formerly and temporarily named Seven Good Things Before Breakfast. Both titles are good, we think, but Michele (at Scholar’s Blog) suggested “7-Imp’s 7 Kicks” (the “kick” coming from Kick-Ass Things That Happened to You During Your Week), and we just love it. For any new folks, the idea is that we simply share The Good in our lives this week.
And how do you like the image? It’s Tenniel’s image of Lewis Carroll’s The White Queen with Alice (from Chapter Five, “Wool and Water,” from Through the Looking Glass), here telling Alice that “{w}hy, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Later, she mumbles something to Alice about 7 Kicks before breakfast, too, but that part was deleted from Carroll’s text (Alice fans, don’t send hate mail. We only jest).
Anyway, blah blah. Sorry. Here are our lists:
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CONGRATS again, Little Willow! 
Thanks for answering my question, Elaine. Now I really do want to hear more!
Look at this piece of good news, everyone, which I saw at Kelly Herold’s wonderful 
O MY HOW I LOVE PAUL SIMON and can’t wait to see that show. Eisha and I also both happen to love Lyle Lovett. We both love that inside image in the CD insert of “The Road to Ensenada” — what is it? It’s a picture of his hat, and the liner of the hat says “like hell it’s yours.” Did I get that right? I’ll have to go find that CD and double-check. 
We’re pretty informal ’round here. And no, I haven’t read that Naylor, but I’ll put it on the ol’ pile. I know exactly what you mean about the “light leaks.”
I love Today and Today with all my heart. It’s still my favorite book of 2007 thus far. (Cowboy and Octopus by Scieszka and Smith is a close second.)
Eisha, And now I have another new band to check out. I think I get just as many good music and film recommendations from this blog as I do books, which is excellent.
Oh, Jules, I’ve never had a migraine, but pain sucks. I hope that nonsense stops.
The Prestige is a seriously good movie.
My seven kicks:
1. I am, at long last, caught up on my blog reading. I’ve disastrously behind for most of the summer, and it’s always nice to catch up.
2. I’ve been doing some more serious work in my yard over the last couple weeks, and the plants are going all crazy acting extra-happy and blooming. I love that plants are alive things you can totally screw up and still usually fix.
3. I bought a new dress this week and almost everyone I saw the day I wore it complimented it. That felt awesome.
4. Tam and I snuck out to see Becoming Jane, which, with a couple minor reservations, I enjoyed. (As an aside, I’d recommend the book Cassandra’s Sister by Veronica Bennett before or after seeing this film, which fictively covers the same time period in Austen’s life.) (Is “fictively” a word? I’m rolling with it.)
5. I got to play Barbies with a friend’s daughter at a birthday party. It was surprisingly fun.
6. I bought a plane ticket to go visit my aunt this January. (She lives in Vegas, so, you know, it’s rough.)
7. I only managed to drag my butt to the Y once this week, but I’m going to focus on managing to drag it once. This was not my banner week.
Eisha and Jules,
Thanks for the illustration by G. Brian Karas! He is definitely one of my favorite picture book illustrators. I love his concept and his art in Today & Today. It’s a special kind of poetry book. Don’t you think it’s great?
In addition to the Karas illustration, my other BIG kick is that my husband completed the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge last weekend…at the age of sixty-one. He plans to do it again next year. His team, Team Daisy, has already raised over $55,000 for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
adrienne, since this blog is supposed to be strictly about books, I think Jules and I both use the 7-Kicks lists as an excuse/outlet to talk about our other big passions - namely, music and movies. So glad you dig it. And The Prestige was a pretty good movie - in some ways better than the book, which left me with a “Hubba-WHA?” feeling at the end.
Elaine - that is so awesome about your husband and Team Daisy. YAY!!!
Oh, and adrienne - tell us about the dress!
Jules: I hope you feel better! It’s probably the heat and humidity. I always found a triple espresso and a shot of vodka helps with a migraine. (I don’t drink anymore, but I also don’t get migraines anymore either. Age is good for something!!)
Adrienne: Will you come work in my yard now? It really needs it. I live with two Russians (it’s a huge duplex–single Russian/coworker lives in other side) who believe grass should be “natural.”
Elaine: Your husband rocks! Congrats to him.
Here are my seven kicks:
1) Finally feel on top of my blogging and blogging-related e-mail. Yay! I’ve been behind the eight ball since June 5th or so and I hated it. Work e-mail is the only one suffering now, ironically, but I’ll get it together by the time the students come back. And they’re the only ones who really matter. The Dean has something to say? Oh well, I can just catch up mid-August
2. “If a Tree Falls During Lunch Period,” by Gennifer Chodlenko. I’m going to put up a review this evening, but I loved it.
3. The weather is going to break this week, they claim. According to forcasts, we’ll finally be out of the 90s (with 90 percent humidity, no less) on Wednesday. Yay!
4. Kids go back to school in 10 days and not even the little one is dreading it. I’m certainly not dreading it
We’ve been very together since 6/1. No summer programs this year.
5. My little one has been a total sweetheart this week. Just pure joy.
6. My nephew is beautiful
Sister not allowing blog photos, alas.
7. Life is generally good.
Adrienne, just got a copy of Cassandra’s Sister and looking forward to reading it. I wanna see your dress, too. I love a good dress.
Elaine, that’s great about your husband! What an achievement!
Kelly, congrats on getting caught up. The latest issue of The Edge of the Forest is great. And I hear ya on the weather. It’s been over 100 here this week.
My 7 Kicks this week:
1. When Jr. said, “When I’m a grown-up, I’m going to hang out at the drugstore and eat candy.”
2. A fun afternoon at the town pool with friends. When I was growing up in Miss., all the city pools were closed because of integration fears. ARGH.
3. Hairspray. Oh, man. I loved it. I’m gonna have to watch High School Musical 2 tonight to see Zac again.
4. Sushi after the movie!
5. A new Dunkin Donuts opened here in town, and we sampled the wares.(Hazelnut coffee for me, choc. glazed doughnut for Jr.)
6. Our own chickens, right here in the yard.
7. Chickens.
Jules, love the illustrations.
Eisha, glad you’re enjoying Ithaca and congrats to your husband. Wonderful picture of Miles. Elaine, that’s so awesome for your husband. We watched the bikers leave Babson College and cheered them on!
Kelly, I second The Edge of the Forest is wonderful.
1. I resigned myself to signing up all three kids up for a week long adventure classes starting tomorrow. I felt so bad about it since I wanted to spend every possible moment with them this summer, but finally realized, which is a good thing, we all needed a break from each other. So I’m jumping for joy over the two and a half hour break.
2. Eggplant parmesan. Love, love, love it.
3. School starts in three weeks. The countdown begins.
4. An Amazon.com box with great goodies.
5. My revisions are finally making sense.
6. Great black high heeled sandals.
7. Three nights of great sleeping temperatures! We’re talking 67 degrees!
Thanks, Everyone…on behalf of me AND my husband. Since last December, a number of people who are very dear to us have been diagnosed with cancer. We keep hoping a cure will be found.
Vivian,
My husband makes the best eggplant lasagna in the world. It never lasts long in our house. My daughter and I can polish off a pan in no time. We LOVE it!
Vivian, I swear, your lists always make me hungriest. And do tell about the sandals!
Susan, I like Junior’s ambition. Is that really a job? Sign me up, too. And YAY! for your chickens!
Kelly, maybe if you show your sister our blog, and how embarrassingly crowded it is with pictures of my nephew, she’ll get jealous and let you post pics too. Just an idea.
It almost feels like cheating to chime in this week because, well, I was still out of the country for most of it and I could post 7 kicks per day. Still…
1. Amsterdam
2. Choc-au-lait in Amsterdam
3. Eating the best Thai food in Amsterdam. Twice.
4. European beer (non-pasteurized, thus no hangovers!)
5. Actually just sitting in a coffeeshop and doing nothing for hours and not feeling the least bit bad about it. Because that’s what vacations are about, right?
6. Coming home to find that the cats not only survived without us but seemed to remember who we were and didn’t resent us too much for being gone so long.
7. Having the girls come home from their extended away-camp to find that they not only survived without us but seemed to remember who we were and didn’t resent us too much for being apart for so long.
And now, lets see how long it takes to get back into the old routines. Or to make new routines to replace the old ones.
Well, hello there, prodigal! Welcome back, David. And we’re not the least bit, you know, jealous, or resentful, or anything like that. Nosiree. Not one little bit.
Hi Jules and Eisha:
What a great idea! Here are my 7 kicks:
1. The G. Brian Karas illustrations (drool, sigh, admire, applaud). I do love his work (I was honored to have him illustrate my second PB, TRUMAN’S AUNT FARM.
2. Eisha introducing me to McSweeneys (I really needed to laugh this week)!!
3. Finally launching my personal blog, which I had been debating about for awhile.
4. Seeing “Pride and Prejudice” (Keira Knightly version) for the first time. SOOO romantic!
5. Receiving a “good” rejection letter from an editor I admire.
6. Seeing two adorable fawns and their mother in the back yard.
7. Seven Imp, of course!!
jules: go read The Folk Keeper right now! It’s one of my favorite books. And so sorry about your migraines…I’m wincing just thinking of two in one day. I’m glad you can still read…
eisha: that is so cool about your husband. I keep hoping one of my kids goes into theater, so I can have some connection to that glorious world, but I doubt it. I guess I’ll have to usher or something. Oh, and I love your description of “having the kind of life” that certain music would be the soundtrack for—that really makes me want to find that music!
My list:
1. Finishing The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean. This was like one of those extended gourmet meals in which you savor each bite and think the next course can’t possibly be as delicious, but it is, and you wind up feeling all yummy and satisfied at the end. My god, what gorgeous writing! And despite all the darkness, it made me laugh, too. Read it!
2. Jama (jay-mah) Rattigan started blogging, and she said I helped inspire her to! She giving away a free picture book this week, so go see her: http://jamarattigan.livejournal.com/
3. Hearing Lee Bennett Hopkins give the closing address about poetry at the SCBWI conference, which was wonderful in itself, but then, he read—with great passion and grace—a poem by a dear friend of mine, Beverly McLoughland. (Some of you know I featured her on my blog on Poetry Friday a few weeks ago.) I was so thrilled I was crying.
4. Eating out with my kids, and watching my son discover how good really fresh fish can be. Eating out with an 18 and 16 year old is such a joy, and makes all those mad dinners when they were 3 and 5 worthwhile. Ha!
5. Holding hands with my husband. Uh-huh, I still love him, and we’re coming up on an anniversary. I’ll save that for next week’s list.
6. Having time to finally digest the conference, and feeling the overwhelming need to WRITE SOMETHING, which I did, for Poetry Friday.
7. Triple-flavored shaved ice. Pineapple upside-down cake with fresh pineapple. Eating outside.
The ridiculously cute baby in the Ramones bib totally made my day. Rock!
Sorry I’ve been absent for a few of these and for some your great posts. Nothing personal, you understand, just mini-vacations and a summer laziness that have taken over my brain. Somewhat pleasant, in ways, but I’ve been a bit neglectful.
Anyway, back on track with this week’s kicks:
1. All day on the beach with the girls and seeing dolphins like three yards away from us. Magical moment.
2. Spending time with my 14 month old niece - who I just adore. We even got to keep her overnight for extra special time with her.
3. Easy traffic going and coming. These Sunday to Tuesday weekends are so working out for me.
4. Lovely times floating in the pool or reading by the pool and then floating in the pool. Or reading by the pool, visiting with mommy friends and then floating in the pool. It’s all good.
5. New books appearing in my mailbox that I neither requested nor heard off, but they’re right on target for me so someone must know something. Bonus: they’re adult books.
6. Writing poetry and it not sucking. Honestly, I’d rather tell my readers about stealing a roll of toilet paper from the community pool instead of making a stop at the grocery store than try out poetry in public, but whoop, there it is.
7. I started my three week - oh, blissful three week - vacation from work! Only five days is planned with a family vacation. I’ll probably squeeze in another three-day beach trip. Otherwise, it’s just not working time. Biggest kick of all, for sure.
Susan, I still say yay for those chickens. And tell your son I’ll be his Assistant Manager in that drugstory/candy gig.
Vivian, enjoy your kid-free time during their adventure course. A rested mama is a better mama. I don’t always take that advice myself when I should, but I can tell others that with ease!
David, WELCOME BACK! I’m glad you had fun but missed your posts. How did I miss that chocolate in Amsterdam? I’m not trying to be all I’ve-been-to-Amsterdam-too; I’m just seriously wondering how I missed that.
Jama, welcome! Your blog is great. Congrats on launching it.
Sara, what a great list — that’s particularly awesome that Hopkins read Beverly’s poem. Happy early anniversary, too. I look forward to this enjoying-meals again thing of which you speak when the girls are 17 and 18! Right now, my youngest is still occasionally throwing food, and I’m getting payback from my oldest for having been such a dreadfully picky eater myself, growing up.
MotherReader, your mini-vacation sound like the place(s) to be. Congrats on the poetry. We’re supposed to have a Mo image from his new book next week here at the kicks list, so that one’s for you. Come back!
Jama - howdy! Welcome to the kidlitosphere.
Sara - I don’t know if I’d wish the theatre bug on anyone I love - it takes long hours, a lot of energy and patience, and provides very little monetary reward. Oh, wait, I guess that’s kind of like writing, too.
redheadedali - I KNOW! I’m sure I’m wearing everyone’s patience thin, constantly posting pics of my nephew. But LOOK AT HIM! How am I supposed to keep that cuteness to myself?
Welcome back, MotherReader. Of all your cool kicks, I’m most jealous you got that close to dolphins! Awesome.
Sorry to hear about the migraines, Jules. I don’t get migraines, but today is my first day in two weeks without a headache, so I can empathize a bit (I always get headaches every day when I go to Boston in the summer - I think it’s the humidity, but it could be stress from running around trying to see a lot people). And Eisha, I love the photo of your nephew reading. So perfect!
I missed the past couple of weeks, because of the aforementioned trip to Boston, so I have plenty of things to celebrate:
1. I spent time with many friends and family members, including my beautiful nieces.
2. Mheir’s parents had a birthday party for us (our birthday are about a month apart), complete with surprise guests, and the best chocolate cake ever.
3. I went to a Red Sox game, with 6th row field box seats. We didn’t get a win, but we did see two Big Papi home runs.
4. In the past two weeks (including 10 days of vacation) I was able to read 13 books, including 4 interesting ARCs. I finished John Mardsen’s Tomorrow series, which I’ve been fascinated by.
5.I just started re-reading Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Green Sky trilogy, and am reminded of why I loved it so much as a kid.
6. Like Adrienne and Kelly, I managed to get caught up with the blogs and email this weekend, something I was really wanting to do. I still don’t feel completely caught up, because I want to do a bunch of reviews, but at least there isn’t that feeling of having 1000 unread blog posts, and 100 unread emails.
7. It is SO nice to get back to Northern California weather after being on the East Coast. I am walking and listening to The Historian.
Happy week to all!
You can see my new favorite dress here. It’s just a summer/work dress, but it fits me like someone tailored it. I do not normally shop at Eddie Bauer, on account of the fact that I’m poor and their clothes are both expensive and a little, um, conservative? But this particular detour on my shopping path was very rewarding. You never know until you try some stuff on, I guess.
Kelly, Oh, my. You should maybe start leaving articles about ticks and Lyme disease lying about. One nice closeup of a tick will drive anyone cut the grass. Or maybe that’s just me.
Elaine, Anyone who’s out there doing something about cancer is a friend of mine. A big RAH! to your husband’s team.
Ooo, Jen! You finished the Marsdens! Aren’t they addictive? I wish more people would read them, but they remain strangely slightly obscure.
Hi, Jen! Glad you visited. I need to get caught up on blogs, too. Glad you got some vacation time and book-reading done.
Adrienne, lovely dress.
Evening all - just before I crawl away to bed, I thought I’d stop by and say Hi…
Adrienne - there is, of course, that perfectly good word “fictionally” rather than “fictively”, but what the hey, I’ve been proofing other people’s fiction, besides writing, typing up and editing my own and I don’t care any more !
Jules, empathies about the migraine - two in one day is NASTY !
Oh and I agree about how fab “The White Darkness” is - seriously, READ IT !!
Kicks ? Um…
1 - I’m continuing to make new friends via the Doctor Who fiction communities - and seem to be picking up lots of requests to “beta-read” stories for people… Actually, is that a Kick, given that eats into my writing time ? Oh well !
2 - My DW fiction continues to be popular - one person said they were going to make an electronic badge saying they “heart” me ! Too funny for words !
3 - I got an Amazon parcel this week thanks to my Associate fees coming through - three NON-David Tennant films (the universe will probably implode!) and a Doctor Who book !
4 - I managed to watch one of the films today - “Happy Feet” makes me happy !
5 - I finally finished re-watching all three seasons of New Doctor Who - next weekend I’ll start on the David Tennant films that arrived this week from two fellow fans…
6 - I’ve been invited to the launch party for Linda Buckley Archer’s “The Tar Man” - yay ! I’m just hoping I can get there now (it’s probably in London and there are reasonably cheap coaches up there)…
Think that’s it for me for this week - too tired to think any longer…
Michelezzzzzz
Jen - mmm, chocolate cake. And I keep hearing good things about the Marsden books - guess I’ll have to read ‘em too, along with White Darkness.
adrienne - cute! Very cute! And on sale, I see…
Michele, ooh, that launch party should be awesome. And congrats on all your accolades.
Jules and Eisha, the illustration this week is fabulous. Thanks for sharing it! And Jules I hope your headaches are gone now.
Here’s my 7 Kicks List:
1. I must have turned some kind of corner with my diet, or with my clothes, because this past week I got bunches of unsolicited “You look great…. Is it okay if I ask how you’ve done it?” comments.
2. I got back to my pre-vacation weight despite a Dairy Queen ice-cream dinner last night. The DQ sundae (peanut butter and fudge sauce) was an excellent decision.
3. I went to a minor league baseball game Friday night, and as I was trotting up the steps to get food, an elderly man with an Army cap looked at me and said, “You’re in good shape, Miss.” I love random compliments from strangers!
4. I got into a slight bidding war on eBay for a dresser I really really wanted, and I won and because it was only a slight war, I didn’t have to pay even half of what I was willing to.
5. I’m finally starting to get my bedrooms in order, after a lot of painting and furniture purchases.
6. Also at the baseball game, I had an incredibly “DUH” kind of moment, and got to laugh (at myself) till I cried.
7. I got a free book in the mail this week. Actually it’s a book and an electronic learning game I think. Must take a closer look and see if it’s good to review, but I’m always happy to get free stuff.
That’s my list. Happy week everyone!
What greeat illustrations this week. I will look for the book. always need great poetry books. Everyone’s kicks were a blast to read. Jules, I am sorry that you are having migraines.
My seven for the week:
1. Our over night trip to Seattle. Missed the hairy I-5 closure for road improvement and got around the city easily.
2. The Olympic Sculpture Art Park in Seattle. Fabulous!
3. The wedding of my college friend’s daughter. There was a point when the music changed and the 50 soemethings had no clue about it. LOL. Was somewhat techno…
4. Being with the mother and father of the bride as it was their wedding 29 years ago today that we were involved with.
5. Blowing bubbles as the bride and groom walked out. Blowing bubbles on the way to the reception.
6. Listening to HP 5 on the way to SEattle.
7.Re-reading Nancy Drew’s The Secret of the Old Clock.
Have a great week.
Well, Nancy, from now on I guess we’ll refer to you as “Smokin’ Hot Babelicious Nancy, The Blogger Who Is - Did We Mention? - Seriously Hot.”
Aw, sounds like a fun wedding, Jone. Bubbles are truly the best way to go for the bride & groom send-off, IMO.
Michele, sweet dreams.
Nancy, we already knew you were a babe.
Jone, something techno in a wedding? Do explain! And how is your summer reading list going?
Hi again. The techno funkish music was at the reception not the wedding. The groom and the best man got out on the dance floor and did some dance sequence I think I heard someone say it was from some cult movie. Then more got out on the dance floor in a circle and individuals went in the middle and danced. I love music and listen to just about anything but I could not even begin to tell you the name of the group or the song. It was kind of wild. Later, even, the father of the bride joined in because the bride made him. They were having a great time. And thankfully there was some music I could dance to and di recognize.
Summer reading list. I posted about it last Monday at “Check It Out”. I should really not make lists…some that were not on the list got read and others didn’t. But I am working on it!!:)
Break a leg, B! What a fantastic opportunity! I hope the workshop goes very well, and the production is both a personal and critical success.
Seven great things that happened between last Sunday and this Sunday:
* Show H: Three good performances!
* Show SA: One wonderful read-through and two blocking rehearsals!
Hmmm, that’s six. Oh, getting a good ensemble review for Show H! Seven. Complete.
Bravo, Little Willow!
Thanks, LW! I’ll pass the break-a-legness on. And right back at you, superstar!