Today is my husband’s 40th birthday and we are spending it at Disneyland! There’s just something so magical about Disneyland. We’ll spend the day hitting all the rides and soaking up the Main Street atmosphere ( I love Main Street) and then for dinner we will celebrate at the Rain Forest Cafe. We’re spending the weekend down here so tomorrow we’ll hit California Adventure! We are going to be full of churros, funnel cakes and caramel apples but so be it!
BTW, Maleficent is my favorite Disney villain. She’s so deliciously evil! I love how she peeks out that window in Sleeping Beauty’s castle. I heard that they remodeled the castle so I hope that feature is still there.
Woodsburner springs from a little-known event in the life of one of America’s most iconic figures, Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord woods—an event that altered the landscape of American thought in a single day.
Against the background of Thoreau’s fire, Pipkin’s ambitious debut penetrates the mind of the young philosopher while also painting a panorama of the young nation at a formative moment. Pipkin’s Thoreau is a lost soul, plagued by indecision, resigned to a career designing pencils for his father’s factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire, his path will intersect with three very different local citizens, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus, a lovable Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Elliott Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. And Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his congregation through an opium haze. Each of their lives, like Thoreau’s, is changed forever by the fire.
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