Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

Last Friday I finished reading the sequel to The Higher Power of Lucky aloud to my 11-year-old, and oh, how we enjoyed it! Lucky Breaks picks up within a year of where Higher Power ends, and so we have Lucky helping Brigitte with her new Cafe (imagine that accent!), Lincoln preparing to enter a knot-tying contest, and Miles finally reading on his own. Enter a new (female) friend for Lucky, a ridiculous tale told to Miles and Lincoln (even my hubby, who happened to be in the room, was laughing in sheer disbelief), Chesterfield in the flesh, and a somewhat ill-fated adventure at an old well, and you get a beautiful blend of adventure, relationships, conversation, and feelings, wrapped up in a package that ought to appeal to other mothers and daughters as much as it did to my daughter and me. How does Susan Patron do it? Neither “Lucky” book I’ve read thus far is terribly long, and yet she packs in all of the important things in her very own signature way. Her Hard Pan trilogy is shaping up to be incredible all the way through; I’ll let you know for sure after my girlie and I both finish the book we started while waiting for the last book to come in at the library and actually read that last book. In the meantime, I cleaned up half of the closet area of our bedroom yesterday (with help), and I’m off to attack the other half today. Wish me luck!