Because I'm feeling noble

[angela_o]

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Exalted Highness Duchess Angela the Sophisticated of Fishkill St Wednesday Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Everyone should have a title don't you think?

In a most unexpected, but very happy turn of events, I'm pleased to report that the Parkwood Piranhas managed to win the Summer Swim League Championships this weekend. We were down by several hundred points to the team that beat us in the regular season after the first session, but the older kids staged a great comeback and the 9-10's held on to the victory in the last session. J got 8th in breaststroke and 19th in butterfly and M got 8th in backstroke. E, J, and N all aged up into new age groups this year, so they were swimming against older kids. Ribbons and points are awarded to the top 20 finishers in each event. Championships were Friday and Saturday and the team banquet and awards ceremony was last night. It will be strange not to have morning practice tomorrow. Although getting J ready to leave for Duke Young Writer's Camp next weekend, seeing the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie, and celebrating N's birthday on Thursday means that this week won't exactly be slow.

I haven't had as much time to read lately with all the swimming related hoopla, but I do have a few more books to add to my list.

#101 is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick(July/07). This is the novel that Blade Runner is based on and I was curious to see what it was like. It was an interesting premise, but not nearly as layered and striking as the movie.

#102 is Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil(July/07). I've had many, many people sing the praises of Indian writers to me, but I've not been enthralled by what I've read so far. I decided to give this both because it was a Whitbread finalist and also because the cover art was striking. The story follows the life of eight year old Cyrus Readymoney in early 1970's Bombay. The child of successful, but often absent parents, the novel is by turns humorous and poignant. I got insights into a world that I know very little about.

#103 is Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer(July/07). I'd read the previous two in this series as bedtime books for M and N. I picked this one up for M while doing sorting for the Book Sale and he gave it to me to read after he'd finished it. Another fun little romp with a young criminal mastermind and the fairies whose existence he inadvertently discovered in the initial book. You've got to love a series that has a technological genius named Foaly who just happens to be a centaur.