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he ate it raw and without ketchup. and, i think the moth was still alive at the time. until it wasn’t.

he didn’t eat all of the wings.

it’s a male Eastern Pondhawk.

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Whaddayoulookinat?

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26. Going in Circles by Pamela Ribon

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some thoughts:

If you only read one book this year about a girl with a failed marriage who joins roller derby and manages to get her life together, read this one.

A good book. I liked all the characters.

This book made me realize that I’ve never worked at a place where I wasn’t the youngest person. I loved  the camraderie that Charlotte, Francesca, and Johnathan had.

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every day with these guys

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file under: Things That Are Doing It.

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whaaaaa?

do they…?

srsly?

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i hate birds.

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filthy creatures.

also, hummingbirds are mean.

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Go, go, Gracie!

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It’s Gracie! the Wonderquick Dog!

Mr. Fleegan and I kept Gracie this weekend while the Traveling Woodlaysons were off on another trip.

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25. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim

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Finally, a Little House memoir worth reading.

This memoir is hilarious, sad, honest, sarcastic, sad again, dishy, laugh-out-loud, serious, funny, and a joy to read. This one does what the other two (Prairie Tale and The Way I See It) did not: dish.

Alison Arngrim manages to dish on the actors and actresses of the show, and not in a mean-spirited way.  Her stories of the show are hilarious and honest. So this one dishes and entertains as well. I think it’s because Arngrim is also a stand-up comic, so I think that would help make her writing far more entertaining because she used to doing just that, while the other two actresses (Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson) didn’t really have the writing thing down. Plus, in Gilbert’s memoir she was trying to be nice about everything. And in Anderson’s memoir, well, she basically recapped episodes on LHotP, I’m still trying to figure out why. Arngrim just tells it like it was.

It was great fun to read.

I actually laughed out loud at some parts and Mr. Fleegan would ask me what’s so funny and I’d tell him whatever shenanigans was going on and even he would laugh. Especially the part about how Arngrim and Gilbert (best friends, by the way) would go to the grocery store together as kids and people would be concerned for Gilbert all, “you have to get out of here. Nellie’s in the store too!”

It’s amazing how much America hated (and still hates) Nellie. And it’s not surprising that France? Loves Nellie.
How awesome it that?

If you only read one Little House on the Prairie memoir, read this one.

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24. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch

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I was excited when I found out that Jon Clinch had a new book out. I read his first one, Finn, when it came out in 2007, and while I liked the idea behind Finn, I found the actual writing to be difficult to follow. I was really interested to see how the author’s second novel would go.

This is the best novel I’ve read all year.

From the jacket cover:

It’s as close as a primitive farm on the margins of an upstate New York town, where the three Proctor brothers live together in a kind of crumbling stasis. They linger like creatures from an older, wilder, and far less forgiving world—until one of them dies in his sleep and the other two are suspected of murder.

Told in a chorus of voices that span a generation, Kings of the Earth examines the bonds of family and blood, faith and suspicion, that link not just the brothers but their entire community.

The writing is wonderful and very much an homage to Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, only it’s easier to read. The story is told from many points of view, and it’s so well done that all the characters have their own very recognizable voice. It was a joy to read even though the story itself seems so bleak. 

It reads like a memoir told by several people, and all of the characters seem very authentic.

This is another story where I’ve noticed that the landscape itself seems like a character.

The book is nearly 400 pages but they way it’s laid out in these short, bite-sized pieces you just fly right through it and it’s over before you want it to end.

I’d recommend this novel to anyone. This will probably be my “go to” novel for the rest of the year when people at the library ask me if I’ve read anything good lately.

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extreme close-up!

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these dragonflies are so easy to capture because once you’re standing there and they realize that you’re not a bird who might eat them they just stand still. and if you get too close they fly away and come right back again. they are much easier to work with than either my dog or cat.

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