With Hurricane Sandy now fully behind us, (or so we hope) I can officially say I've survived to write another post. My town was not quite as lucky. Trees are down everywhere, and over 75% is still without power (that includes me in case you were wondering). In that case, I'm logged into the library's Wi-Fi along with lots of other people trying to charge stuff, check email, and get up to date with what has been going on. On Monday, we lost power at about 5pm, right in the middle of a three-hour-long Monopoly game that I ended up winning, and I didn't even own Park Place!
Thank goodness I went to the library on Saturday where I checked out several good books including My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick which I finished in just to days by flashlight. (Review to be coming shortly). I also finished reading the play by Arthur Miller entitled The Crucible which although it was very good, only made me even more depressed. Unfortunately, it seems I might be in the dark until at least the weekend, maybe even early next week. We have a generator, but it's not really that useful if you can't get any gas for it. Lines for gas are over 50 cars long, and the supermarkets' shelves are becoming quite bare. This is all freakishly reminding me of Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It, and The Dead and the Gone (good books, I suggest you read them. At a later time of course.) It is definitely much, much, much worse that when Hurricane Irene hit last year.
In the mean time, I will start reading The Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows, complete my notes on The Crucible, and maybe even log back in here to write a The Movie vs. The Book review for The Perks of Being a Wallflower which I saw with some friends last weekend. So, until I'm back again, I hope everyone that was in Sandy's path of fury gets on their feet soon, and those which this does not apply to, I hope you are reading something good!
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