literacy comes at a cost

if, say, you were creating an art wall of bugs for kids (2-5) and you had to come up with a creative name that was better than “bug wall” what would you call it? please respond.

i went to santa barbara this weekend and spent 11 hours in the library researching the library. the rest of the time i spent on the couch with nuala and garren eating three kinds of meat in one meal. that’s a lot of meat.

i also finished reading nick hornby’s the polysyllabic spree, my new favorite book. there’s a sequel called something about housecleaning which i totally just ordered from amazon. i’ve never read anything by hornby until now (though i did just read about a boy 2 days ago) but TPS is a collection of essays about buying books and reading books. man, i love books…about books.

one of my favorite parts is when hornby quotes this book by gabriel zaid that he just read, so many books: “‘the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.’ that’s me! and you, probably! that’s us! ‘thousands of unread books’! ‘truly cultured’!”

ha ha ha! i like that he affirms one of my main purposes in life–owning lots and lots of books that i don’t read and will probably never read. thank you, nick hornby (and gabriel zaid), thank you.

seriously, respond on the bug front. i need suggestions for my brother’s girlfriend and i’ve got nothing.