I just finished re-reading my book club's book of the month, and I must say... I love this book more than I'd remembered that I did. (And I'd remembered that I loved it quite a bit!) This time it was more poignant than funny, which surprised me. I'd read it beginning to end twice, and little pieces of it at a time over and over again - and always, I'd found it laugh-out-loud hilarious. This time (while it was still funny, don't get me wrong), I found myself pondering my own early childhood more than I previously have. Today I've been relfecting on my early years, on so many of the fantastic and not-so-fantastic things that happened in my own childhood in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I've been incredibly blessed in my life to know a lot of amazing people - and a lot of those people are from home. I'm incredibly grateful for my small-town heritage, for the town that raised me every bit as much as my own parents did.
For any of you out there who haven't read Zippy... do yourself a favor and check her out. Haven Kimmel is a gifted writer. She can write about nothing - compellingly, for 200+ pages at a time. Which, as you can imagine, I think is totally awesome!
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Oh, I love Zippy! I need to reread...
And I'm telling you, you MUST write a book. Seriously, the world needs to hear about the Taylor Anvil.
Okay, just in case you need even MORE evidence that we are pre-existence pals--just yesterday I pulled my copy of Zippy off the shelf and started re-reading. ;) Will you knock it off already????
i don't know jenni, but i agree with her. write...because you have a gifted, and funny voice.
Oh, I loved Zippy! I read it per Jenni's suggestion. Just fabulous. And I, too, would love to read a book written by you.
Girls, girls, girls... I love you all. Go ahead, turn my head with all that talk of "you should write a book, Laurie, you should write a book!". You know how much I love to hear it. (Not to mention how much I love to daydream/fantasize about the passive income of royalties and never having to work again.) ...Now if I could only just WRITE something already.
Which brings me to... haha, Jen. Nice dig about the Taylor Anvil. I was actually thinking about the anvil the other day and thinking it would make a pretty fine chapter story. ...I'm telling you, every time I read Zippy I think "this girl's got nothin on me... I grew up in Rural AZ in the 70's, and knew people who didn't have indoor plumbing - the same family, mind you, who ate the ENTIRE apple (core and all)". To this day, I'm not sure which is more troubling.
Anyway, Zip's a bit of an inspiration to me. As are you all. Keep telling me to write. I promise someday I'll actually do it.
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