Thunder and Lightning

It was a dark and stormy night and you have the choice of three books to bring into your tornado storm shelter.  Which items do you choose?

Keep in mind that all reading will be done with the frequent siren interruptions of your brand new weather radio* purchased four hours** before the first sirens.

Oh, and you had that bright idea to install a tornado app on your phone.  It's slightly out of sync with your weather radio so you get double the random warnings.

In the event of power outage, you have three sources of light:

• Flashlight #1 with batteries that may have been replaced (were they???) once since the 2007 gift.  You have one spare battery.
• Flashlight #2 purchased day 0 of impeding storms.  You will only realize later that because it's cute and LED, it will only give you 1.5 hours of light on the three batteries.  You have one spare. 
• One LED bike light which you never got around to installing on your bike from Christmas 2012.  It is the most fun because it pulses but reading with it might be a bit of a bear seizure.

Your safe room is hot because of course it's not ventilated.  Between the noise and the heat, concentration is a challenge.

Luckily, there is room for one tiny chair so you don't have to sit on the floor.  

In two hours, you've been able to leave the safe room for a period of 45 minutes (not consecutively) but you managed a quick dinner thanks to Boca.  

What do you choose?

*Health note:  I think one should have to have a heart test before the purchase of one of these radios.

**Consumer note:  If you've been through one of these before you will pay up to 200% markup...so I've heard.

My selections:

• Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (electronic version at 95% battery) that I began during my last weekend trip.
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett which is still in progress because I didn't want to carry a book on the plane.  
• Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories by Saul Bellow a lovely treat sent from a friend, hard copy, not started.  

If I have time to read all three, please send reading water.  

Running Down a Dream II

It's a double race weekend for me which means there is a fair amount of napping and hydrating today before the final morning jog tomorrow.  [Feet on a pillow has never felt so good and I want to hug the person who invented compression sleeves.]

Tomorrow afternoon I'll have a date with a book, some reading water and a cheeseburger.  See also: long nap.

Hope your weekend is a great one!

Ring in Spring

This week I have said "yes" to every opportunity.  It's made me exhausted, but wow, what a fun week it's been.

Happy Spring!

Try new things.

Swing Spring

I'm slowly making it through The Wolf and anticipate the story is soon approaching its end as the arrests have begun.  

We're only just over a week or so away from the March GBC and Nashville city-wide read We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler.  I know GBC P@1ge is making good progress and I hope to manage a good chunk after all the indictments are handed out above.  

My current challenge is the weather.  These warm days with hints of spring have me wanting to run or bike and sit in the backyard with a warm* G&T wondering how exactly I could engineer a hammock.  

Hope you have a great week ahead!  

*Time to start making ice again.

65 is Alive

It is too pretty to stay inside and read.

I hope you were out enjoying the warm sunshine and rewarded yourself with a little nap.

There's plenty of time for books once the sun goes down.

Spring is coming.

Equal Rites

All things being equal, I'd like to wish you a happy equinox.

Hope your day is sunny, that you hear Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and that your book club gathering will be delightful.  A reminder that this month's book (not that you have time to finish) is Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David.