A great day

My boy calls me Grandma. He is talking so much more and so much better. I am thrilled. He likes his 25 cent carrier ship.

The pretty girl. She calls me MeMaw. I call her rotten...

More Books

I went to the library yesterday and got a few books. I did not get any Norman Mailer books. They did not have the Marilyn or the Gary Gilmore book. I don't much think I would like his books. I got a book about Einstein, one by the couple that the Blind Side movie was about but not the Blind Side book, a bio by 'Nellie Olson' from Little house. I have read about half of this book and I have enjoyed it. I also got The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh. I have read this and all his other books, but I am going to see if I can read it again. I am getting old and I have probably forgotten most of it.

Then I bought the two books above at 2 thrift stores. The Black Boy was on a list of 100 recommended non-fiction books I found on a highbrow list on the net. While at work yesterday, I went through the whole 100 and picked out any that sounded promising to look up a review on. This is the only one of the 100 I thought I might want to read. I guess I am not very highbrow in spite of sister's assessment of my reading interests. The other book is for sister Patsy. My book was a quarter and hers was a whole dollar. I just had to get it for her because it is about her hero. I will take it to her next time I am out that way to get the babies. After I read the other one, I may take it to her also.

It is too hot to do anything except read.

And Helen, when is Billy supposed to be here?

Books

I had my library get the Circus book that the sisters recommended. It was alright. The first part of the book was really interesting, but I did not like this woman. I had read an interview of her and thought I would like her, but no. She was not someone I could like, and she seemed to think her husband was a great man. I did not see anything in the book to make me think he was anything other than a very nasty old man.

I read a biography of Sotomayor. Again, I really enjoyed the first part of the book. Her mother was an orphan from Puerto Rico. Her father died young and left her mother to raise two children. She grew up in the projects in New York. At one time, she was a prosecutor in New York. Some of the stories of her cases would make great detective books.

Another book I have this week is Redneck Boy in the Promised Land by Ben Jones, Cooter from the Dukes of Hazzard. Again it was the first part of the book, before he became famous that was so very interesting. He was born right before WWII. His father was a railroad section foreman in Virginia and they lived in a 'section' house just a few feet from the railroad tracks during his childhood. They were very poor. They did not get electricity or running water in their house until sometime in the 60's.

I read a bio of General Sherman that was interesting.

I think I will go to the library tomorrow and see if they have any Norman Mailer books. I have never read any of his books. Betty says his Gary Gilmore book is good. Our library will probably not have that one, but they probably have the Marilyn book. I think I have tried to read his books before and thought that he took real people and wrote fiction. If someone wants to write fiction, I do not understand why they do not just write fiction instead of using real names of famous people. Well, I guess I do. Big made up stories about famous real people make more money than unreal made up stories about people of their dreams.

It was really hot today, but we have a nice breeze blowing now. In July, in Arkansas, you can count on hearing 1954 on the weather report of record highs several days a week. The year Grandpa died and Helen was born, the hottest on record.

Barter

I went to Erin's to see Betty. I traded flower seeds for this bench. It was Erin's bench, but she was not home. I wonder if she will get any of the seeds?