Magnum Opus

My mom hates me.  I know this because she got my four-year-old this for his birthday.  He named it “Spatula.”

I keep wanting to shriek and throw a book at it.  Which isn’t a very nice thing for a writer to do to a book.  And speaking of arachnids in (or should I say under?) literature, Charlotte from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web is the only spider I would never throw a book at. 

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