tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post114438618443572298..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Books 3 WaysMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144533862418038262006-04-08T18:04:00.000-04:002006-04-08T18:04:00.000-04:00Whew. Hours and hours in Oneonta attempting to amu...Whew. <BR/><BR/>Hours and hours in Oneonta attempting to amuse myself while N was at a birthday party at the ever-popular Interskate 88--not quite as bad as a Chuck E. Cheese parlor, but getting close. They kicked me out of the public library but not before I found a couple of Diana Wynne Jones books that R had not read. Amazing. Thought we'd run the gamut. My husband said that when he was a boy Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144529405350739842006-04-08T16:50:00.000-04:002006-04-08T16:50:00.000-04:00Oh, lovely. Everything about this post delights me...Oh, lovely. Everything about this post delights me, from the picture (soon no one will recall card catalogs, everything being computerized)to the reading group and certainly to your fledgling nature writer's notes (fleece pants are a necessity of life, and make scratchy ones wholly unnecessary).jarvenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709417058741577802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144518281246178882006-04-08T13:44:00.000-04:002006-04-08T13:44:00.000-04:00Oh, I so enjoy reading these excerpts from your ch...Oh, I so enjoy reading these excerpts from your children's writing! I miss those flies and scrachy pants days.<BR/>(Although, truth be told, I was never crazy about the scrachy pants part.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144502860373983032006-04-08T09:27:00.000-04:002006-04-08T09:27:00.000-04:00No, I just had a certain type of old-fashioned Sou...No, I just had a certain type of old-fashioned Southern humility inflicted on me at a tender age!<BR/><BR/>I have another child who has read and reread my books (and even writes a bit like me), but I don't measure either one by reading done or left undone...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144464598375470472006-04-07T22:49:00.000-04:002006-04-07T22:49:00.000-04:00Until the age of twelve, my son, too, would not re...Until the age of twelve, my son, too, would not read fiction, so being the concerned yet enterprising mother, I employed him for three summers. His job: to read novels from a booklist I had created. And being a wise young man, he read and gathered in the cash. Today he is an adult with an extensive library to accommodate his reading habit, but he doesn’t read fiction. Some things just are.<BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144448755898249362006-04-07T18:25:00.000-04:002006-04-07T18:25:00.000-04:00I'll have to go read some more O'Connor wisdom for...I'll have to go read some more O'Connor wisdom for consolation!<BR/><BR/>Have fun, and don't stay out quite as late as I did. I've been yawning all day. Perhaps it's the rain...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1144437810403913882006-04-07T15:23:00.000-04:002006-04-07T15:23:00.000-04:00Interesting that you should mention book clubs- th...Interesting that you should mention book clubs- the book club I belong to is starting up again tonight! :) It's a Mock Newberry Bookclub, where we get to read armloads of advance reader copies. Undistinguished books are chopped off the lenghty list, until in January we are left with our own "Newberry Winner"! Last year we recieved copies of Ingledove, which almost reached our Top Ten. Sadly, it Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com