Today has been a super productive day for me, aside from reading a book I completed two scarves and started another. These two are to be delievered to my little sisters Christina and Kimberly probably this Saturday when I head into Elk Rapids for the photoshoot. I believe we’re going to see the ballet Sleeping Beauty sometime this weekend or next as well, but Morn modeled for me so we could see how they change colors and morph and become like a rainbow. [He's so good to me!] I finished my third one a while ago and it’s on route to Germany as you read this!
I’ve also been working on a new layout, as always it seems, but this one is another fun and happy-esque one that I’ll be excited to release. I hope you are all enjoying your day as much as I am.

Well that was quick! No one is a swifter detector of false prose than a young adult, and no one less patient with anything that doesn’t strike him or her as true. Young adult and children’s literature has always been under extreme stress to be written with an ear for language. This entire book, like, “A Step From Heaven” is written in free verse; the entire novel is in extended narrative poetry. And Virginia Euwer Wolff won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature with that verse. It’s apparently the second book in a trilogy, the Make Lemonade trilogy to be exact, which I didn’t realize until after I had finished the book. But, “True Believer” can certainly stand alone. I enjoyed it, but I think I’m going to take a break now from this style of realistic fiction and splurge on some fantasy or some stronger fiction. Perhaps I’ll finally force myself to finish Forever Odd, the sequel to one of my favorite books, or perhaps I’ll finally get a chance to finish The Book Thief. Cheerio, readers!