Books and Owls

From time to time my electronic things let me down. This month tragedy occurred when my Kindle ( electronic book) went kaput. It was fine and then one night I turned it on to read before going to sleep and it had a horrible blank line across the screen. The blank line grew until half the screen didn't work. I stared at it in gut wrenching dismay.... I am happy to say everyone is awake at Amazon at midnight and they are most sympathetic. You do not have to select a bunch of irritating options before speaking to a real person. And that real person is working somewhere on this continent. They were happy to send me a new one but unfortunately since Oprah had recently endorsed them they were out of stock. I had to wait two and half weeks for my new one.

I turned to paper books once more. Last week I read the autobiography of Julia Child. Good book. It was our book club book this month. Julia doesn't really get going with her life and cooking until she is fairly old marrying in her late thirties and beginning her career in her forties. My friends and I were quite happy to read that! Her husband held a job during the war which included designing war rooms for generals. What exactly that job entailed I do not know.

I bought the Life of Edgar Sawtelle. Can't recommend that one. The dog died and I put the book down. I don't like creepy books where the dog dies.

My Kindle came last Monday. Yahoo! I downloaded a book called Wesley the Owl: The remarkable Love Story of an Owl an his Girl. This one is cracking me up. This girl has something in common with Erik. She cried when her mother thoughtlessly killed a spider. I once had to go to preschool and rescue Erik and a spider from an evil preschool teacher. And there was the time when Erik burst into tears when someone squashed a green beetle at the ice cream store. The girl in the story works at Cal Tech and is given a barn owl to raise. This is a 24/7 job. Baby Barn owls need to eat lots of mice all day and all night. Going on a date with a baby Barn owl makes a pretty funny story. Her date really didn't care for going into a restaurant with a dinosaur shaped bird and a box full of chopped up mice. For our family having mice in the freezer is perfectly reasonable. Here is a girl I can relate to! And I am a little bit of a sucker for a good animal story every now and then. I know I know it is a strange weakness...