Claudia and Duffy

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

I just watched the Chattanooga news for, I think, the first time ever. There were cute blond kids being rescued from their kidnapper, and more human remains from that crematory mess found filed with some paperwork (gross), and houses burning down in Alton park, and a murder on Doris Road. What a great area is that known as northwest Georgia. It made me feel much better after watching a little movie called "My Dog Skip" that somehow managed to make five reasoning college seniors sob for ten minutes about a puppy getting hit on the head with a shovel. What did the Greeks used to say about drama and catharsis?

I was checking to make sure they weren't planning on making a movie of Charlotte Doyle and I found the best book review I've read in a long time. The title caught my eye - Viking It and Liking It. Ha.

The Time Warp Trio guys warp into Viking time. First the Vikings don't like them, then they do later in the book. When they find the magic book it was a stone that said "Fred, Sam, and Joe were here." When they were captured by a bad guy it was cool how they escaped. This book is cool, funny, and awesome.

Gosh, I love the prose of eight-year-olds.

My last Internet search was actually fruitful. Anyone know anything about Melanie Safka? Never heard the name before today, but there was an old song of hers I had in a completely unidentified form on a tape and knew enough of the lyrics for Google to find it for me (Lay Down with the Edwin Hawkins singers, no wonder I liked it.) Huzzah, and yipee! Buy this album for my birthday.