Update

Re: Black Beauty. I am still working on it. Book is long, y'all.

In other news, while I was home for the holidays I had planned to pick through the mother lode of wonderful YA books from when I was younger. I had dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Judy Blume, and most of all, Louisa May Alcott. But alas, sometime over the last few months these books have been relegated to the basement, a.k.a. the bottomless pit of my parents' house. I couldn't find them, and my mother (who probably knows exactly where they are) seemed too busy for me to justify bothering her with this. So I will have to go searching the used book shops sometime soon. In the meantime, enjoy this wonderful send-up of Little House on the Prairie.