Happy New Cold!
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, my good friend! It is January 2nd in the town of C'ville. I have the day off and I've gotten most of my errands run already this morning. There's healthy food in the fridge. I have pomegranate and blackcurrant juice, tea and cold medicine. I also have this year's booklist all prepped and ready to go.
This year's list I am expecting to add to as the time goes on. For the first part of the year, if I go by the list, I'm going to be reading or rereading a lot of kids books. I have the remaining Lemony Snicket books on my list as well as Harry Potter and the Wrinkle in Time Quintet. But, its not all children's books. The list also contains Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, a book on Social Semiotics, a book on Critical reading, and two Bill Bryson books. There is also a book on the Twysogion. Well, its actually just about Welsh history during the time period when the Prince of Wales was actually Welsh. I'm very excited about this year's list. So excited, in fact, that I have just finished reading one of the books! The Wide Window.
The Wide Window is the third installment in the Series of Unfortunate Events. The book finds the children living near Lake Lachrymose with their new guardian Aunt Josephine Anwhistle, who is afraid of everything. She is afraid that doorknobs may shatter if you touch them. She is afraid of the possibility of electrocution if you use the phone. She is afraid that the stove may explode if she turns it on. So, living at her house is a bucket full of fun eating cold food, ignoring the phone, and pushing doors open and shut without touching the doorknobs. Aunt Josephine is also in love with grammar. Grammar in the English teacher sense. Not, in the Linguistic sense. Enter Count Olaf disguised as Captain Sham and the lachrymose leeches in the lake that can smell food in a person for up to an hour after they have eaten, shake and serve. This book was a lot of fun because of the situations they find themselves in. Also, it was not nearly as heartbreaking as the second book. Where Uncle Monty in the Reptile Room was warm and kind and fun, Aunt Josephine is cowardly and cold and a bit of a wet towel. I'm really looking forward to the next installment of the series The Miserable Mill.
