Hurricanes in the Mall

People are really, astonishingly inventive. Really. Astonishingly. We went to the Mall today. Bill kindly bought me lunch at Vapianos, a restaurant that’s so delightful, the couple we met in China praised it. (They’d been there, and they live in California.) Then, we took the Cherubim on the train that runs around the mall (a kiddie…

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A Cat In The Hat Birthday

Dear Diary, For one’s birthday, one always hopes that one will receive a visit from the Birthday Bird of Katroo. (It’s a family tradition, reading Dr. Seuss’s Happy Birthday To You on our birthdays.) But…this morning saw instead, the Cat in the Hat. In an incident that seemed right out of The Cat In The Hat…

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The Wright Magicians

Yesterday, Orville gave a magic show for his class. We snuck Juss out of school (it was the next to last day of school, so he merely missed  a pizza party) and he acted as Orville’s assistant, doing a trick or two of his own. The show was a big success. Best one Orville has done…

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Publisher’s Weekly Reveiw…modified

Here’s the review…edited by me to remove stuff that shouldn’t be revealed ahead of time:   PUBLISHERS WEEKLY June 14, 2010     06/14/2010 Fiction Prospero in Hell L. Jagi Lamplighter, Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1930-2 In this epic sequel to 2009’s Prospero Lost, Lamplighter continues the Amberesque adventures of an ancient family caught up…

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Star from PW

Just got a nice review from Publisher’s Weekly for Prospero In Hell. I’m not going to post it because they revealed more than someone who hasn’t read the book should know, but…hey. How cool!

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