Mirrormask

This week I saw Dave McKean's superbly bizarre "Mirrormask". It's part animated, part live, and part Muppet, of all things, and written by Neil Gaiman. If you love Neil (and I do love Neil!), if you love McKean's illustrations of "The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish", you really should see this movie. (Although the guy in front of us did get up and leave in disgust about ten minutes in!)

A Northern Light

What a gorgeous book! I couldn't put it down! I highly recommend "A Northern Light" by Jennifer Donnelly. It's the wonderful, raw story of a young girl growing up poor in northern New York State in the early 1900's. She dreams of college, but resigns herself to marrying young and working hard . . . but will she give up on her dreams? Lovely, lovely book.