Turn the alarm off!

That's the thing I'm most excited to do this break. Turn the alarm off and get up when my eyelids pop open on their own. I'm also fired up about all the time, space, and room I'll have to read this next week-and-a-half. Oh, Winter Break, you arrived just in time...

There is the pile of books (especially Nat'l Book Award Nominee Inexcusable by Chris Lynch),
magazines (I need to find a copy of last week's New Yorker),
newspapers (it's been a month since I've sat down with the Sunday paper),
articles (I actually tore out an article from a magazine in the doctor's office that I just couldn't bear not to read),
and blogs (I've recently heard about a couple of blogs I'd like to check out) waiting patiently in my backpack and on my bedside table. I can't wait to get my hands on them,every last one of them.

Oh my little apples, I'm excited. The words! The stories! The poetry! The human experience! The knowledge! The exposure!

It's been a great year, Huskies. I'm grateful for this chance to read and share with you all. You make me even MORE excited about reading than I've ever been, and I just didn't know that was possible. But that's what you do. You are readers.

Let's blog and share and read together this winter break. I'll check in, and I'm hoping you'll do the same.

See you in '08.
Talk soon.
Keep reading.
Stenson

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Good books and Cool Quotes

Fearless Blogging 8LA Readers, how are you?

On Thanksgiving, I read a book cover to cover. It was filled with memorable quotes and lines. If I included them all in this post, the post would just roll on and on like the Mississippi, so let me pick just one to share...somewhere in the first part of the book, the author writes:

The truth kept insisting itself to me.

What a glorious way to put it, to give "truth" the action of being so bold and obvious that it MUST be acknowledged. This a concept much different than Ponyboy's "I lie to myself all the time", but I know both feelings well.

So, anyway, I started a new blog for "well-said words". If you stumble across a phrase, sentence, passage that really moves you, than post it.

The link to this separate blog is at the bottom of the page with my profile on it. Look to the left, click on "view my complete profile" and scroll to the bottom. It's titled "Stay Gold" (yep, that oh-so-memorable quote from The Outsiders).

Hope to see you there. Hope to grow quite a collection of quotes. Hope you are all safe and warm in this winter wonderland-


Stenson