I haven't updated this blog in so long and I have really missed it, even though I don't think anyone reads it because no one reads blogs anymore, everyone has substack and medium or patreon or whatever and why have we strayed so far from LiveJournal? Why? The unfortunate result of straying from LiveJournal is that I make too many posts per day to Facebook. I have so many books checked out from the library right now AND YET all I want to read are these John Bellairs books! I had The Mummy, The Will, and The Crypt when I was a kid. I have no idea where I got it. Sometimes I would read books aloud to my mom while she was driving and I remember reading the beginning of this one to her because I didn't understand the reference to "Come On-A My House". (I also remember reading Superfudge (?) to her and skipping parts of it...censoring a child's book that I, a child, was reading to my mother...that's wild.) What I did not know when I was a kid was that there are many Johnny Dixon mysteries. I only knew of this one. Then I was at a Friends of the Library sale and picked up the next book in the series, which I was not that into! I don't remember why. I think I read it on the plane ride to Florida and then left it in a Little Free Library at some point. These covers by Edward Gorey are so iconic. It's unfortunate that the ebook covers are super generic and don't have the pop that this one has. Hoopla has all of these books and I re-read The Mummy, The Will, and The Crypt & it was almost like reading it new because I only really remembered the end, and not even the ending, just the part where Johnny is exploring the crypt and the church. The ending was only slightly satisfying. The occult elements in John Bellairs books do not seem fully formed to me. I don't know. I am just in the mood for this and nothing else will do!! I just checked out The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost. 'The Rose-Hip Fairy', from Flower Fairies of the Autumn, Cicely Mary Baker. Last week a lady smashed into me with her SUV and it's the second time someone has hit me with their car here. I have a very large bruise that is healing well. People ask me if I'm going to sue her and for what? So I can talk to the cops?? And then go to court?? For an indeterminate amount of stress? I had to weigh the pros and cons but I am tired of getting hit by people operating two-ton vehicles that they have no business operating if they can't pay attention to the world around them. Anyway I would like to stop living in the city and become a flower fairy. It seems pretty good. No shoes. Too small to get hit by cars. Sunshine, vibing with some plants, hanging out in a tree, playing tricks on humans. I am and have always been a country mouse. And I am okay with that.
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