February 28, 2014
1:47 a.m.

It seems I am not sleeping tonight. I'm tired, but I don't feel sleepy at all.

Some days are all about reading. I often revisit books, and this week I've revisited The Talisman and Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub. They make quite a team. Jack Sawyer is one of my favorite characters. It's always great when a writer will go back to a character who, in the original book, was a child, and tell us what happened to them when they grew up.

Recently Stephen King did the same thing with a character many of us wondered about for years: Danny Torrence. He was a very young child when last we saw him in The Shining. Finally, in 2013, we got to see where Dan ended up as an adult in Dr. Sleep.

I'm not always a fan of sequels, but these are some books I highly recommend.

Now, The Dark Tower series is without a doubt my favorite work by Stephen King. I wouldn't call the books sequels, however; the seven editions are really one long book. Actually, there are eight books in the series. It seems the esteemed Mr. King had as hard a time letting go as I did, and he wrote an "in between" story into the series. And the "tower" theme shows up in many of his other works. Those of us who have read the series recognize the references, while those who have not never know they've missed anything.

Stephen King is something of a genius, I think. I'm always revisiting something of his while waiting for whatever he's got coming out next.

This is not to say that I don't read other writers. I read plenty of other writers. Just not this week.

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Tonight has been more of a movie night for me. I'm a Disney kid, you know. Some people just refuse to grow up, and why should I? I love animation, I love music, and I'm always happy to sing along to a Disney song.

"Frozen" is out on DVD, and is well worth a look. It's a good story with a couple of unexpected twists, and I'll be humming the songs all week.

You might as well just buy it, because if you haven't seen it at theaters and just go rent it, you'll end up buying it anyway, once you do watch. Besides, you know you have a Disney collection. Doesn't everyone?

I know collectors who started with VHS tapes. Then they started over with DVDs, and started once again with Blu-Rays. I have a haphazard collection--I could never afford to start from scratch, or to collect every Disney movie. But collections are cool. If I could afford it, you know I'd have stacks and stacks of All my favorite old Disney flicks!

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Okay, I've been linking tiny chain for earrings long enough tonight, I guess, and it's time to hit the hay and hope for a few hours of noddy-blinky.

Good night. Sleep tight! (Hopefully)