The Best Laid Plans of Dawgs and Zam...

...almost always go astray. Ok, so I'm no Robert Burns. I admit it.

*sigh*

Gretchen, we apologize. Actually, Zam should apologize. But, I am sorry, too.

We're changing the book list. Actually, ZAM is changing the book list.

Here's the deal: I finished reading Lost, and so, I queried, "Zam, which of the 4 books you picked shall we read next?" Her response was something to the effect of the fact that she no longer "liked" the remaining 3 choices she had made, and so, we started all over, searching for something, shall we say, "lighter"?

So, scrap that last list from the previous post. Here are the TWO books that Zam has now settled on. (And I will hold her to this, since my summer is drawing closer and closer to an end, and I still have to re-read my novels that I teach every year.)

1. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
2. Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

*whew*

There you have it. Sorry to make you have to run to the library AGAIN...

I'll be done with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tomorrow, I am sure. I just started today, and I am a good 200 pages into it. I am totally digging it. I cracked open the book to the first page of Chapter 1, and all I could think as I began to read was This is the chapter that Rowling has had planned out in her mind for the last 13 years...

That is amazing. I had wondered how in the world she could possibly have known for 13 years what would be happening in that first chapter, but after reading it, it all makes sense.

Brilliant. Bloody f-ing brilliant.