What I'm Taking to Read

For the plane I'm taking the December issues of Real Simple and Oprah magazine, plus this week's Time magazine. I'm also taking Teacher Man, which I have already started reading (even though I'm not finished with Love My Rifle More than You). In the suitcase I have Love my Rifle as well as Julie and Julia for my mother. I went to pick it up off the floor (where it sat next to the wrapped gifts to also take with us) and discovered that our cat, Mouse: had hurled onto the book at some point during the night. Apparently the book made a prime furball hurling target. Or Mouse had secretly read the book and this is what she thought of it. Either way, kind of annoying to have to wash off a book to read. I know I will probably not finish all I have brought to read as we will be busy, but I always need back up, so I'm also taking Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress (by Susan Jane Gilman) and Rereadings, the book I bought last night. I'm also taking the script I'm in the middle of rewriting, though I have already told myself this is a holiday and no pressure on writing until I get back. So there it is. What I'm reading on my holiday. We'll see what I get through. Aloha.