Saturday, May 24, 2008

A Crooked Kind of Perfect


I finished this middle grade novel by Linda Urban today and just loved it. It's such an interesting, unusual story of a girl who wants to be a classical pianist, but winds up with an organ instead, thanks to her eccentric, agoraphobic father. Every word felt true to me... it made me both laugh and cry, my favorite kind of book.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Lay vs. laid

I have a very concise and simple explanation of this on my website now. But I happened to notice this at the bottom of an AP news article today:

(This version CORRECTS to `lay' from 'laid' in graf 2. )
It shows what a common mistake is it to use "laid" when someone actually means "lay."

Thursday, May 1, 2008