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August 4, 2006

'Zelle of Elk City

Giselle is soaking up the books. And then resoaking them up if she doesn't get any new ones in her clutches. We picked up the full set of A Series of Unfortunate Events for her when we celebrated our Anniversary last January. eBay rules. Boy was she bug-eyed and excited when she opened that box up.

She was in the middle of re-reading Where the Red Fern Grows and The Two Towers when we headed to Oklahoma last week. While we were there, we hit the Elk City Denny's more than a couple times because we were on perpetual Arizona Dinner Time, and everything else closes at 9 PM in the semi-rural plains. Somehow or other, our waitress got into a conversation with Giselle about what she was reading, and they decided they were twins separated by ten years or so. She made a few reading suggestions for Giselle to hit next, including the Anne of [insert location here] series. I ran across the series at Bookman's a couple days ago and picked them up for her. She's deep into the first book (the Green Gables one) and according to Amanda has given it a hearty thumbs up. (She's into thumbs-up and head-nodding these days.) I also snagged The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn for a hint of Twain. And then Of Mice and Men because doggonnit, I'm going to get her to read some Steinbeck.

I should also note that she wants us to move to Oklahoma. The vast, teeming number of cousins, the outdoor escapes, the farm animals, the crystál méth...oh wait. She wasn't there long enough to develop that craving. But then she encountered the dilemma of what to do about being further away from her Phoenix cousins. So we'd have to move them out somehow. Then they could all form a militia. If properly chronicled, it might make a nice series.

Posted by Jeremy at August 4, 2006 6:08 PM