The Eighth Day/ The Ninth Day

THE EIGHT DAY (October 8, 2011)

Thistle & Shamrock #805, “A Celtic Harvest” and #806, “The Water is Wide.”

Horton Hatches the Egg, Dr. Seuss – Pretty funny, yet Horton the Elephant’s faithfulness and friendliness impressed Cubby.

Superman comic strip, “Jewel Smugglers” (3/20 – 4/1, 1939) and “The Skyscraper of Death” (4/3 – 4/28, 1939).

The Strength of Lions & the Flight of Eagles, Joe Nigg – The greatest birthday card ever, a mini-pamphlet about gryphons! At last the bird-beasts have come into their own.

“The Rocket Man,” “The Golden Apples of the Sun,” Ray Bradbury (sf ss)

Ice Age Monsters: Woolly Rhinoceros, Rupert Oliver (jv nf) – Another look at prehistoric critters. The Homotherium that attacks the rhino looks like a prehistoric werewolf (although Cubby hasn’t officially discovered werewolves yet).

Warner Brothers Cartoons: “A Tale of Two Kitties,” “An Itch in Time,” “Ding Dong Daddy.”

The Maltese Falcon (1941 mystery) plus DVD extras – It feels like Cubby has covered the basics of classic movies – John Wayne, Hitchcock, The Lost World for science fiction and monsters, and now Humphrey Bogart.


THE NINTH DAY (Oct. 9, 2011)

The Sneetches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss (jv) – more funny stories, but those empty walking pants freaked Cubby out!

Excerpt from The Story of My Life, Augustus Hare – includes a phantom carriage, a banshee tale, and the Vampire of Croglin Grange. Pretty scary, but Cubby wanted scary stories!

“A Sound of Thunder,” Ray Bradbury (sf ss) – astounding use of language, of dinosaurs, and of time travel!

Heavener, Oklahoma – map of Heavener Runestone State Recreation Area and the general area around. A bit more of Oklahoma’s “Green Country” seen. Did Vikings reach Oklahoma and carve runes in boulders?

“Terror Reigns in Whitechapel as Jack the Ripper Strikes” – London Times coverage reprinted in A Treasury of Great Reporting (1949), edited by Louis Lee Snyder and Richard Brandon. Now we know the basics of the most infamous of killers, Jack the Ripper. Hope it’s not too scary for Cubby!

Twenty books read = 1/240 of the way done.