The Great Fire isn't a book that grabs me by the scruff of the neck and keeps me glued to the pages. (oooh! strange image there.) anyway, yes, so far it's slow going.  but i persevere.  I"ve been spending entirely too much time reworking my links sidebar on the windmills journal this week.  got it under control now though.  nice to have this dedicated journal where all my links are about one thing: books/reading/writing.  or is that three things?  interconnected anyway.

do you love Anne Lamott?  if not, why not?  do you know Anne Lamott?  because, as far as i'm concerned, to know her is to love her.  she's one thousand percent more into Jesus than i am, but she's irreverent and funny and swears a lot.  she's on hiatus from Salon.com right now, a fact that has me jonesing badly.  it may mean she's writing a new book, though she says it's so she "can get her joy back."  how, i wonder?  anyway, here's a righteous interview with her to get us thru her salon absence.

geez, i wish someone were reading this journal. i can't pay enough attention to that counter thing to know.  if you do pass through, would you, like, say hi?