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February Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
Congratulations Jennifer Egan!!!
I’ve been telling people for months that Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad is the best book I’ve read in many, many years (if not ever). I was totally delighted to turn on my computer this morning and learn that her book had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. GO JENNIFER!
I was first introduced to Ms. Egan through her book The Keep. For some reason it was on my “to read” list, but every time I picked it up and read the jacket I thought “I don’t want to read this.” Finally I read it. I loved it.
Then my husband brought home Goon Squad. I read the jacket and said “I don’t want to read this.” GREAT book.
And now I have Ms. Egan’s Emerald City waiting on my Kindle. I’m putting off reading it the way I put off eating my Halloween candy as a child. I don’t want to start because I don’t want it to be over.
The good thing about getting older: I can probably read Goon Squad as soon as my friend Mick returns it and get exactly as much delight from it as I did on the first reading.
Read Jennifer Egan!
Everyone Loves a Lawyer!
I know I do. Really. My great-grandfather left the farm in Bowdoinham, Me., armed with a borrowed suit, to attend college and then law school, and the rest is history: grandfather, both parents, uncles, brother, cousins… and now my stepdaughter: all lawyers! One of my first jobs was as a summer receptionist in the family law office. Every single day my grandfather kissed me good morning and declared for the benefit of all in reception that he had always wanted to be able to kiss his secretary. I never got tired of that silly joke… or of Grandpa’s good morning kisses.
And apparently you love lawyers too! The winner of the March caption contest is Deb Gilgore with this wonderful caption:
Congratulations, Deb!
March Caption Contest Finalists
I suppose I have Pam Kueber and her March 24th blog post to thank for the fact that we had almost 1000 captions submitted for the March caption contest! There may have been more than 1000 if I’d counted all the submissions that consisted of several captions. Thank you, Pam!
So I had to be utterly ruthless. Utterly.
