Little stinky-face.

There is a really great book out there. It is an inspiring, tear-jerking novel. It is definitely worth checking out.

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A month ago I wrote a little about the new Nick Hornby novel, A Long Way Down. It really has been a great read. If the kids weren't so insistent (meal-time, and play-time, and diaper-time, and story-time) I guess I would be through it by now. I didn't really put too much thought into the title, because when you are standing up at the top of the building, intent on jumping off, and you look down it is a Long Way Down. But in the book they talk about if you don't jump, and you have to walk back down the stairs then you are actually taking the long way down off the top. But so far, it seems to me that the book is referring more to the experiences of the four individuals. Not quite in the literal sense of their location, but rather their state of minds, or their relationships. Not quite with each other, but with their families, and friends. So I might speculate about the fact that with friends and families, and each other, their is no quick jump off the building answers. It takes effort, the walk down the stairs, to fix our lives, or make things the way we want them.