Remembering Jon Hassler

I was very sad to hear that Jon Hassler had died in March - Kari told me during the wedding week. She had thought I must already know, since it was all over the news in Minnesota at the time.

I signed the online guest book link that Dave found. I hope his wife and family are doing ok.

It's also really amazing that he kept writing even during the worst of his disease. Apparently there will be a new novel called "Jay O'Malley" which he was able to finish before he died.

Note on May 22 -
I reread Staggerford and A Green Journey again after buying them at the fountain of all lost books, BookBuyers in Mountain View.
It made me miss him more- there's a lot of stuff I didn't notice the last time I read.

1. I was a person nosy about teachers, and here's a book about a high school English teacher that is pretty candid - it begins "First hour, Miles yawned."

2. In both books I realized that I was gravitating toward the Miss McGee character and that I identify pretty strongly with the "hardscrabble girls" that she would take in and help out. I think I would have let her do that for me but maybe I would be resentful about it, I don't know.