books, dogs and whatnot

i’ve been taking petra the wonder wimp to this dog park melissa found for the last couple of weeks and she LOVES it! sometimes there are 15 or more dogs running crazy there – she sure loves to run. we spent about an hour and a half hanging out and i thought that she’d be real tired when we got back home – but NOPE. she was still a little feisty. later on though, she finally gave in and collapsed into a coma. it’s great watching her play. there was a little white pomeranian who petra thought was her own personal plaything. she tried picking him up by his little harness so he could go wherever she went. the woman who brought the dog, stitch is his name, didn’t seem to mind and actually thought it was funny. also funny – knowing the all the dog’s names, but not their owners.

i forgot to mention that i got my Ozomatli tickets for july. am i excited?
HELL YEAH!!

ok. here’s the long-awaited (yeah, right) booklist:


1) Scott Bradfield’s Dream of the Wolf
2) Cherokee Paul McDonald’s Into the Green
3) Edna OBrien’s Mother Ireland
4) Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing
5) Bino Relauyo’s The Umbrella Country
6) Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Inland Ice and Other Stories
7) Neil Gaiman’s Angels & Visitations
8) Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog
9) Lori Lansen’s The Girls
10) Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt
11) Juan Ramirez’s A Patriot After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
12) Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter: Chicano poet in the lowlands of America
13) Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
14) Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why