Saturday, September 16, 2017

This Week's Fan Fiction

A new chapter was added to my ongoing Another World fic,

Books I'm Currently Reading



A # indicates a book read for the first time
A * indicates a book started today
Books are listed by author (or series creator)

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"
by Marci Alborghetti
daily devotional reading for 2017
I liked the book I used last year better

"Cool It, Carrie"  
by Kate Andrews
[children's fiction, "Making Friends" series]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"The Happiness of Heaven" 
by Fr. J. Boudreau, S.J.
[Catholic spirituality]


"Raising Consumers
Children and the American Mass Market
in the Early Twentieth Century" 
by Lisa Jacobson
[nonfiction]


"The Book of Sirach"  
[Bible book]

"Getting Acquainted"  *
by Shifra Weinberg
[children's fiction, Jewish, "Regards From Camp!" series] 


Also:
Daily readings in the Liturgy of the Hours
Nightly bedtime Gospel reading
I choose a favorite passage every night

Finished Today:

"Zigzag and Other Stories"
by Reva Rubenstein

Read In One Sitting:

"The Poky Little Puppy"
by Janette Sebring Lowrey

[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

My Early Writings

Sometimes I wish that I still had copies of my very early writings, especially the stories and poems I wrote before I was a teenager.

I wrote the first one when I was in third grade.  It was the weekend, the library was closed, and I had finished my books.  I wrote a story so I'd have something to read!

This is what I remember about that story, which was an adventure, written in the first person, in which I starred.
I went exploring and, among other things, picked berries in the falling snow.  After I had walked for awhile, I came to a cave filled with jewels... and some thieves!
I captured the thieves and ended up with a great reward, PLUS the jewels.  Then I went home.
The story ended with me asking my mother the next week, "Can I go exploring?"

 In retrospect, I wonder how much that story was influenced by the stories Little Lulu told to Alvin in the comic books. 

I remember, just barely, a humorous poem I wrote in the sixth grade.  It was about someone who robbed a supermarket, and was chased and caught.  The last line, spoken to the thief, was, "You forgot your trading stamps."
(Mom and I collected Plaid Stamps; I've forgotten what prize or prizes we got.)

And then there were the stories and poems I wrote in my early and middle teens.  At least one was written as an English-class assignment;  I later re-wrote it as a fanfic.

Someday, maybe I'll remember enough about at least SOME of my old stories to be able to rewrite them.  Perhaps not for publication though; perhaps just for myself.

Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...