I put the bad in sabbatical. Dear Lixxx and Erin, who regularly attend to this project:

As I will be quite busy quite soon, I must once again default on my loans, entering into a two-month sabbatical. You can expect me back here on July 5th, when I will promptly devour my remaining sixteen books.

Thank you dearly for your attentions.  ¶ 01:43 2 comments

  Eighty-Fourth Book What Begins With Bird : Noy Holland
FC2 : 2005
Bought at Park Slope Books for $6.00+

Started 4.30.06
Finished 5.2.06

The Line: "Papa, I am four almost. And after this I will be six and after that I will be ten and when I become fifteen I'll drive and I will drive so fast and then I will be twenty. Then I will have one leg. Old people only have one leg and then I will be dead, Papa, and you will come and save me. I will be in a pond" (69-70).

In one story, the
narrator gets covered in
horse blood. My fave, natch!  ¶ 16:43 3 comments

  Eighty-Third Book The Bell Jar : Sylvia Plath
Faber and Faber : 1996
Bought from Mercer Books for $3.50+

Started 4.27.06
Finished 4.29.06

The Line: "I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord" (108).

Sylvia Plath is
officially the coolest
dead woman ever.  ¶ 21:08 2 comments