Heaven Is Paved with Oreos by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Author:Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tuesday, July 16

We are at breakfast. Our waiter asked Z if she was sick and needed the aspirin. We said, “No, grazie.” I am writing in my journal right now—you should see the bump on my finger! Z says I am an inspiration to her. Those were her exact words. I am writing a lot, but I am not writing everything.

Tuesday, July 16—LATER

We have not gone to San Sebastiano yet. Miss Hesselgrave would be deeply disappointed. So am I—but at least we are going this afternoon! Instead we did something that was a lot more fun, even if it won’t get us into heaven: we went back to that Roman paper store.

Z told me to pick out a new blank journal for myself “for future adventures”—I will store it away until I’m grownup, as a promise to me—and I got gifts for everyone, and Z is also getting a journal—in Italian it’s called a giornale, which means “journal” because Italians don’t use j—and a fountain pen.

Here are the gifts I have bought:

A little blank book with graph paper instead of lines. The pages are long and skinny and it definitely ≠ a Red Bend school notebook

A pencil case

Fancy paper napkins

Colored pencils in a real tin box

Another blank notebook with an amazing cover

Pushpins that look extremely un-Wisconsin

An eraser: ditto

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