Wednesday, 28 December 2005

bike

Two 3.6-mile city rides. What is even the last time I rode 20K (the triathlon distance)? Who'm I kidding.

penderwicks: a summer tale about four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy

And a dog! Why isn't the dog in the title?

Jeanne Birdsall. Obviously E. Nesbitt-y and Edgar Eager-y and Elizabeth Enright-y and even Eleanor Estes-y and all those good E things. Not March-y except in their number, though there is a single parent and a boy in a mansion next door. Good in all kinds of kid-book ways except why ever would Mrs. Tifton be a landlady if she's so damn concerned about Keeping Up Appearances? Renting, even a vacation cottage, would be, in her opinion, Not My Kind, Dear.