leaving town tonight!

   I'm leaving town in an hour or so.  I packed tiredly and hurriedly last night, so I don't have lots of books with me.  Just Head Girl of the Chalet School, Sayers's translation of the Inferno, Gaudy Night (I finished re-reading the last few pages today) and a journal or two.  I don't think that books on tape really count as books; if they did, I'd mention the audiobooks of Snail Mail No More and P.S. Longer Letter Later that I have in my bag.  These last are part of my ongoing mourning process for Paula Danziger.  Funny, because she is by no means my favorite author.  Like Judy Blume, she has recurring themes and writing habits that irritate me.  But I read (and re-read) Danziger so much as a teen, that I feel the need to mourn her now.
   Last book read: Princess of the Chalet School.  Aside from the irritating obligatory rescue, it's not bad.