Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow :)

Yeah, so apparently earlier last week we had 31cm of snow, and then the big snowstorm over Friday/Saturday was 52cm in 24 hours.

That's 12 plus 20.5 inches in about four days. Almost three feet. No wonder our cars were buried. I haven't seen snowdrifts this high since I was a little kid, and they were over my head because I was four feet tall ;)

So bizarre to be getting winter now. The Canal didn't even open till almost February, and it had felt distinctly un-winterish until just a few weeks ago. Weird.

Books read since August ;)

Books read in the last... um... many months. Wow. I really did let a while go by without one of these, didn't I?

• Me:
  
  • The Heathen's Guide to World Religions, by William Hopper. It's irreverent and hilarious and quite informative. The author is a former Queen's University divinity student who, I dunno, went a little psycho and veered into anti-religiousness rather spectacularly. Although he does treat a lot of the original teachings with respect (well... other than calling Jesus "Josh" and Buddha "Sid"); he mostly reserves his snark for religious institutions.
    
  • Surviving Hitler, by Andrea Warren. Kids' book. Well written. Now overdue. Eeep.
    
  • Borrowed Children, by George Ella Lyon. Another kids' book. Also overdue.
    
  • Antarctica, by Kim Stanley Robinson. Had already read it, but it's worth going back to. I always feel like my IQ has either gone up a few notches after I've read a bit of it, or that it's gone down several notches while I'm reading. Robinson is distressingly smart. He confuses me.
  
  
  
• Daniel:
  
  • Read quite a few books for the MS Readathon. Let's see... there were the Tales from the Midnight Library: Blood and Sand, Voices, End Game, by Damien Graves; a Magic Treehouse book, Vacation Under the Volcano; the first book of the Prydain Chronicles (The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander, which he loved; he told Justin at one point "If you were Fflewdur Fflam, every string in your harp would be breaking right now!" If you've read Prydain, you'll get the meaning of that one ;); The Little Broomstick, by Mary Stewart, and The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham.
    
  • Then the Readathon was over and he continued reading the Prydain books. He's gone through The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer (his favourite so far) and today began the last one, The High King.
    
    How did his childhood go by so quickly and get him to this place where he's reading books I remember reading at his age?
  
  
  
• Chris and the Boys:
  Finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in September, started The Order of the Phoenix, and finished it in December, I think. They then started reading The Half-Blood Prince, the first time Chris or Justin have ever read a Harry Potter book where they have no idea what will happen because they have not seen the movie. Justin doesn't even know that ( spoiler )
  dies. And I don't think Chris knows the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. Other than the fact that it is not Voldemort's little brother, Skippy.
  
  
• Justin:
  Read a hell of a lot for the home schooling MS Readathon too (which raised over $750, BTW!). Among his books: Get Well, Good Knight; Arthur's New Baby; Poppleton and Friends; In a Dark, Dark Room; Fox In Socks; Ghosts and Other Scary Stories and Pie Rats Ahoy!
  
  We are now reading through Little House in the Big Woods together. And again, I'm not sure how he got so big so fast. I remember reading the Little House Books. It wasn't that long ago, was it?
  
  
• Chris:
  Read Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge, by Jeffrey Simpson , Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers. Interesting. Depressing. Will have to read it myself, as I only got little tidbits from Chris' reading.