Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

After an exhausting day yesterday, I should have been able to sleep in, right? Yeah, that’d be a no. I woke up at 5:30 and couldn’t manage to get back to sleep; after laying there, doing my daily word puzzles, looking a few things up on my phone, and remaining (most frustratingly) awake, I finally got up and settled down in my fluffy bathrobe to finish another graphic novel. (Okay, READ a graphic novel. I started it long enough ago and got so few pages into it, I ended up just restarting it.) I’ve been looking at my Goodreads list of books I started and then got distracted and never finished, and the second ‘Racc Pack’ novel–Prince and the Pawper–seemed both the shortest and the easiest to grab in the dark.

Thankfully, it was both a quick read and a fun one, in an elementary-school-fluff kind of way. The raccoon brothers (one of whom looks suspiciously like a possum) are back, this time agog at the news of a racoon being featured at a local Pet Expo. Determined to figure out how Prince the Raccoon has gotten humans to love him, they sneak in; the rest is indeed a retelling of The Prince and the Pauper. There’s more depth to this than your average cheesy graphic novel (although Raina Telgemeier it most certainly is not), so if you’ve got a reluctant reader who likes graphic novels but doesn’t want to engage with the more ‘coming of age’ type, this is a good pick. (Or if you’ve got a graphic novel-obsessed child who wants as many as she can get her hands on.)

Anyway. I did manage to doze back off for a while, but I’m not ruling out a possible afternoon nap today. In the meantime, I have errands to run, so I’ve got to go make myself presentable. Signing off!