A City of Ghosts

I am so grateful for the few of you who always read me, even when it takes me two, three, or six months to find the time to blog (and something interesting to say).  Thanks.

So I’m going to tell you about the most exciting thing that happened to me today – a book came in the mail. Yeah, I know, that sounds sooooo exciting. Whatever. I have found that when I allow small things to make me happy, I am happy more often. I scoff at no small pleasure, and usually I try to find ways to draw my pleasures out as long as possible – which is what I’m doing right now about this book, actually.

Betsy Phillips, who blogs as “Aunt B” and under her own name (I almost said “as herself” but I kind of almost think the opposite is true) at Pith in the Wind, wrote and self-published A City of Ghosts. As someone who reads her blog at least several times per week and often daily, there was no question I would also read the book. I ordered it about a hundred years ago, but Amazon lost it or something – I’m still not clear what went wrong. While I was waiting, I read a comment Betsy made about not being able to know what people are thinking as they read the book, and that resonated with me. Except, usually when I let people read something I’ve written, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know what they’re thinking. So I thought to myself that if I had more time on my hands, it would be fun to sort of live blog reading the book – not because I think my point of view about it is particularly important, but because it’s a point of view, and also just because I thought it would be a fun little project. Alas, when do I have time to do such things? Never.

Imagine then my joy when I arrived home from work today to find my Amazon box on the kitchen counter on the eve of my two day mini vacation. The frustrating delay means that I DO have time to write about the book as I read it, and I’m more excited than is probably reasonable about that.

Of course  I won’t actually be live blogging the book. That’s too much multi-tasking even for me. What I will be doing is jotting down my thoughts as I go, and then coming back and trying to interpret those notes in long hand. Hopefully it won’t annoy Betsy too much. It will probably annoy her less (assuming she reads it at all) if it causes some of you to buy her book, so umm, you could mention that in the comments if it does.

So the first entry, since I haven’t really started reading yet, is this link to the press release and information about the book. Read that, become fascinated with the concept, then meet me back here tomorrow. K? K.

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