rebecca_in_blue | Sara's back in Baton Rouge, and Rebecca's happy again.

I meant to make this entry yesterday, but an e-mail I was writing was suddenly and inexplicably deleted and by the time I'd typed it all over again, I was ready for bed. At least, I thought I was. It turned out I stayed up until three in the morning watching Aunt Carolyn's old copy of Gypsy.

I don't know how I managed to stay up so late since I was so busy yesterday, first cleaning out Grandma's closet (a job that took two days) and then driving over to visit the Mortimers (and Eva alone is enough to exhaust anyone). Today I spent the afternoon running errands; I bought a pig's ear for Sable at Planet Pets, did some shopping at KMart, and checked out some great books from the library.

I checked out a children's novel, Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes; another Shirley flick, Now and Forever; and two Holocaust books, Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson. As much as I enjoy reading about the Holocaust, all the books I've read about Jewish victims -- Night, The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank and Me, Number the Stars, The Devil's Arithmetic, The Cage, The Big Lie, Fireflies in the Dark -- are becoming a bit repetitive. (Is that a horrible thing to say? Probably.) Jerry Spinelli managed to captivate me with Milkweed, but most books don't tell the story of the Holocaust with such unique narration. This is why I decided to read Hitler Youth, to see the lesser-told side of the story. The little toddler boy in an SS uniform, saluting Hitler, may be the most frightening WW2 photo I have ever seen. I'm also reading The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant, a great book Grandma lent me. With the plot of The Half-Blood Prince progressing so quickly, I am going to need all of them to keep me distracted between chapters.

All signs point to Draco being a Death-Eater. Why don't Ron and Hermione believe Harry about this, when he's been right so many times in the past? Well, if Ron and Hermione still won't admit they're in love with each other, I suppose they can't be expected to notice things that are blatantly obvious to the rest of the world. That Hermione broke one of her long-cherised school rules just so Ron would win a spot on the Quidditch team proves how far she is willing to go for him.