Go!by P.D.
It has one of the funniest non sequiturs in all literature.
The other dog says No, I do not like that hat.
Credit: Andrew Eccles
Then they say goodbye to each other.
Made me laugh then and makes me laugh now as I am writing this.
I NEVER thought I would write a book let alone 12.
It made me laugh that she was talking about her past the way I talk about shags and Quaaludes.
I wrote…When I Was Little; a Four Year Olds Memoir of Her Youth.
My books come out of me in a flow.
It is a book about best friends saying goodbye to each other.
I can recite it and do so in a moments notice.
It has my favorite line….Who will feed your porcupine?
The book Ive read over and over again
Annie Bananie,Go, Dog.
I love the Jan Brett version.
A classic Im embarrassed to say Ive never read
Black Beauty.
It just seemed like we were all supposed to and I never did.
The book I pretend Ive read
Hahahahahahaha.
It included a book about meditation, as well as theHistory of Western Civilization.
What do you expect.
With no one to really hang out with.
In this rented house was a copy ofKing Rat.
It truly saved me from loneliness and a very boring summer vacation.
The book I consider to be grossly overrated
I try not to judge.
I am too big a fan of books to sit in judgment of them.
I can be snarky, but I dont need to here.
The last book that made me laugh out loud
Im not much of a laugher with books.
I rarely read books with comedy in them.
The last book that made me cry
A Fine Balanceby Rohinton Mistry was very emotional for me.
Also,Cutting For Stoneby Abraham Verghese.
My literary hero
I have a go at stay away from heroes and heroines.
Im not much for idol worship in any areas.
The daily struggle of being human is too precious and serious for me to be flip about it.
I find nurses who work in pediatric burn units to be true heroines and heroes every day.
People are so kind.
In myriad places and ways.
I truly feel that way.
The TV show I think doesnt get its due
Getting On,The Americans.
The last TV series I binged
The Night Manager.
My all-time favorite movie
The Godfather: Part II.
The last book I gave as a gift
The Book of Awakeningby Mark Nepo.
I would like to say that I gave it WAY before Oprah started giving it.
I am ahead of the Oprah curve on many things, includingEast of Edenwhich has my favorite prose ever.
Nothing was ever created by two men.
The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
This is what I am and what I am about.
If the glory can be killed, we are lost.
The last album I listened to
Kygo,Cloud Nine.
The first album I bought with my own money
Elton John,Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Have I ever bought my own book in a bookstore?
I buy my books A LOT!
My books are my best thing, the clearest offering of my mind and heart and humor.
I buy them for people ALL the time.
What Im reading right now
Dalvaby Jim Harrison.
