Five Good Things: Falling Slowly Edition

Katie

January 22, 2010

1. Taking (senatorial) lemons and turning them into garnishes on my Blue Moon. Oh, Massachusetts. I love you desperately, but it is so on.

2. Julie Powell’s newest memoir, Cleaving, which is equal parts fascinating and awesome and hideous. One thing about Julie is she’s devastatingly human. Another thing is, damn, girl can write.

3. Homemade chicken tikka masala with rice and naan, plus Idol in Orlando and some ice cream for dessert.

4. Getting all our crazy papers into the filing cabinet Tom picked up last week. Oh my, our office is turning into a thing of beauty. Or at least less of a pile of crap.

5. A trip out to Northampton this weekend, to go sing karaoke with my favorite toy store girls (note: I will not be singing. There is not enough gin in all the gin joints in the world).

Happy weekend.

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Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.