I love Wikipedia and use it at least ten times a day, but I guess I don’t really understand the way of the wiki. There are all these other wikis that focus on more specific topics, and I thought they were all connected somehow, that an internal link on a sub- or other-wiki would all eventually lead to the big wiki. Apparently that is not the case. Since I backed up and e-mailed myself the wrong file yesterday and couldn’t work on my WIP here at home (I can’t work non-linearly…I just can’t), I spent my working hours on publicity and online stuff, including making entries for myself and my book at the ChildLit Wiki. (I know – they are sparse and boring now. I’ll edit them when things get more exciting.) It takes a certain amount of computer savvy and therefore some time. I thought it all talked to the big wiki, but it doesn’t, so I guess if I should make entries over there, too. Anyway, if you can explain the connection or non-connection of the wiki to me in language I’ll understand, go for it. (Like, should I even be using the word “wiki” as a generic term, or am I violating some trademark or something?)

And now, a little book update: I read Tanya Lee Stone’s A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, which is a YA novel in verse. Loved it. It’s written in three distinct voices and really draws out the complicated circumstances and emotions around Boys and Girls Together. Pretty hot in places, too. Not for the little kiddies. Also, in my ongoing quest for third-person YA, I read Brent Hartinger’s Grand & Humble. Brent wrote this story in alternating third-person narration—always a good way to build suspense, and build suspense he did. A real page-turner; see if you can figure out the mystery! Doo-doo-doo-doo. Lastly, I’m re-reading Paul Mariani’s Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius. I just love that guy. Since I’ve met him a few times, not only do I hear his voice in my head reading it to me in that great native New Yorker voice, I also picture him in the monastery and on the long walks he describes, and writing the book in his journal in his little retreatant cell. If you’re not into the memoir-ish kind of thing or his poetry, Paul has also written these incredible biographies of William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane, and is working on one of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

But enough about boring old books and reading! It’s almost time for me to go watch Project Runway with Sarah! (And don’t you dare tell me what happened yesterday.)

And oh yeah – we delivered another meal tonight for a different couple who just had a baby. No pictures this time, sad to say, but take my word for it when I say she is a living doll. That and the cool weather gave me an excuse to bake butterscotch brownies!