FRIDAY 5: It is Friday, isn't it?

I think it's Friday although life has lost its normal rhythm. Assuming, I've got that right, I'll proceed with 5 random commentaries.

1. I really miss Squeak, my pet mouse.
Came to the hospital without her this morning. I really don't love using the built-in mousepad.

2. My editor forwarded an email saying that COMFORT arrived and is being shipped today! So if you pre-ordered (and bless you if you did) Blue's sequel, it should be there soon. At least to the place you ordered it from. After that you can deal with Amazon's customer service dept. Also a word to Barnes and Noble. Please put Comfort and that Kirkus review back on your site!

3. J.L. Powers wrote a lovely review of Comfort which is posted at NewPages book reviews. If you follow the link, scroll down, down, down to find the Comfort review.

4. Better yet - try this search trick!
--After you go to New Pages Book Reviews type Ctrl F.
--A search window will appear in bottom left of your computer screen. Type in my name and the review will instantly be highlighted! Very cool, huh?
--Did you know you can find things this way on nearly any website? The things I learn from archivists! (Thanks, Wendy at Swarthmore College!)

5. I really love Charlie Rose. (Even if he does keep me up at night!) He's so witty, personable, and just plain brilliant! I wrote a whole post just on him but I'm saving it for another day!

6. (Bonus Item) Hubby is feeling some better. Still no diagnosis.

STATE BOOK AWARD LISTS

More fun stuff. Thanks to Cindy Lord I just learned that BLUE is on another state Children's Book Award list for 2008-2009. This time it's Arkansas and the award itself is called The Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award.

It's also on the book award lists for these two southern states.


Do you recognize them by shape?

All the above are for 2008 and 2009 so voting is a year away. The important thing is that during the next year children in those states will be reading BLUE.
And here in North Carolina they've been reading it too.

As a matter of fact voting is going on right now by students at public and school libraries across the state. The polls close on March 31. Announcement of the winner will be in April.