Here is the bad news first:

Bad news: I recently discovered that tons of my comments have been caught by my spam filters! I discovered them and read them and clapped my hands as if discovering the lost children that I never knew I had, and in my feverish quest to get them to where they belong… I deleted them all! Alas! Even my resident hacker Luke could not save them as they drowned in a swirling pool of data. Even now if I open my ears wide enough I can hear their little adoring screams getting fainter and fainter “what a wonderful bloooog pooooooossssst!” *flush*.

Good news: Luke was able to fix my spam filters so that now all your comments will et through! hoorah!

Even more Good news: (This is the real Good News to go with the Bad News, the other good news was just something I thought I should say to qualm your future commenting fears). I recently discovered the blog of one of my favorite authors! Jaclyn Moriarty. I have only read two of her books, I have a Bed made of Buttermilk Pancakes, which is also the title of her blog, and Feeling Sorry for Celia. I own them both! She has this beautiful simplistic voice and this casual way of addressing the surreal, as if discovering a dinosaur bone is as common as afternoon tea. She writes her blog with the same beautiful voice in which she writes her novels which makes me think: maybe this is not pretend, maybe this is how she thinks and talks and breaths all the time?

Also another interesting thing is that I discovered that my sister has one of Liane Moriarty’s (Jaclyn’s sister’s) books! Three Wishes. I shall dash over there and steal it oh so soon! (I also suspect she has my copy of Buttermilk Pancakes, which I must rescue!)