This book is enough to put a marriage on pause. Baleen, ignoring the question I asked her around 8.32 on Sunday night
For nine months Baleen fretted about what was to come and prepared furiously, narrowly focusing on the only subject that interested her, babies. Her reading selection was as limited as an MIT grad student's, though differing in subject and, perhaps, the number of citations, but just barely.
Books and blogs and websites on babies was all she read. First, for the care of that gestating little human, then for it's first few months. Nothing else interested her, not The New Yorker, NPR or even good 'ol Timmy Egan for more than a few chapters.
Then along came The Hunger Games. $5.01 on Amazon, the price of two iced teas at Martha's Brothers, for six or seven hours of pure pleasure. The Dragon Boss and I figure we'll have Baleen's full attention in another few days. That is, unless she puts down Book 1 not to pick up The Dragon Boss, but Book 2.
For nine months Baleen fretted about what was to come and prepared furiously, narrowly focusing on the only subject that interested her, babies. Her reading selection was as limited as an MIT grad student's, though differing in subject and, perhaps, the number of citations, but just barely.
Books and blogs and websites on babies was all she read. First, for the care of that gestating little human, then for it's first few months. Nothing else interested her, not The New Yorker, NPR or even good 'ol Timmy Egan for more than a few chapters.
Then along came The Hunger Games. $5.01 on Amazon, the price of two iced teas at Martha's Brothers, for six or seven hours of pure pleasure. The Dragon Boss and I figure we'll have Baleen's full attention in another few days. That is, unless she puts down Book 1 not to pick up The Dragon Boss, but Book 2.
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