A Book Long Wanted

Outside the snow and ice are flying.  Indoors there is book buying going on.  I've been eyeing this book for quite some time now:  Miller Brittain: When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.  This week's Goose Lane website launch event has provided me with an excuse to pick it up. Twenty dollars?!!! Too good to pass up.  Perhaps an additional excuse for purchasing this volume (which needs no excuse, really) is that it will also make a wonderful gift for my Mr. Inkslinger. We're both interested in learning more about this fascinating artist and this looks like a good book for that kind of endeavour.

In other book and reading news:  I made my way through The Wizard of Oz recently and have to admit that, while I enjoyed it, it didn't capture my imagination in the way I thought it would.  I loved the bit with the china people and the china cow, but I think the film did a better job at making something magical out of the story.  The book seems lacking somehow.  Perhaps it's the writing style itself.  Or perhaps it's all a matter of timing.  The first time I watched the film version I didn't warm to it at all.  Those monkeys! The wizard. Rather disappointing.  After watching it as an adult, however, I've grown to love it.  So perhaps I'll just give the book another try sometime.