I am reading the most amazing book. "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. She is my new hero. The book is full of all these little gems of stories with rhyme and reason, but not really linear. It is formatted like an encyclopedia done alphabetically, and I am torn between devouring the book and trying to give myself these little illustrated stories of life as prizes for the day. Many of the stories have "see also", so you can keep reading, hence my problem. Her story under "Happiness" leads you to "Tuesday Night" then above that is "Travel" and that can lead you to "Other People" or "Returning from Journey"…SEE! Everything about the book is great, even the jacket cover is super clever and there is a reader's agreement which is hilarious. Amy is clever, so very very clever. (I am using her first name as if I know her, which I don't at all!) Around the time the book was published she was leaving books in the towns where she was having readings. (There is a little video on her website showing her leaving books in all these ingenious places.) It is such a cool thing to do, sweet and clever! I had day dreams where I found one of the books she left, but then I realized that I really didn't want to wait and hope that I might find one, so I went out and bought the book! I think it is going to be my gift of choice for awhile. Hope everyone doesn't mind.

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