Here we are together. A couple of stay-uppers. Our days done at breakfast time starts it with all summer.

Whenever I'm in a small town, I like to drop by whatever the used bookstore is, because you always find the most obscure things.

You find things that would only be owned by old people who died. And the problem with

you is to bookstores in a big city like, well, Toronto, the one where you and I live, is they're

often very picked over. You know, cities are full of eccentrics like you and me who want to own

these things. But small towns and nobody cares. I was at one recently, and I found this book.

I'd never heard of this before. It's called The Search for Sunny Skies, a novel by Mickey Rooney.

You see, here he is on the back, and he's old, right? That is indeed Mickey Rooney.

This book was published in 1994. Now, I haven't read this book yet, but I do want to read to you the dust jacket copy.

And I may never read this book, honestly.

If anybody's read this book, The Search for Sunny Skies, published in Beautiful Hardcover,

let me know if it's any good.

But the plot goes, Mickey Rooney's first novel focuses on a subject he surely knows well, a tale about

Hollywood and a fabulous child actor of the old Hollywood system named Sunny Skies.

Sunny won Oscar nominations before he was wearing long pants. He was the world's hottest

box office attraction at 16. And at 19, he was the envy of the world when he bedded and wedded one of filmlands

classic beauties. By the way, for scholars of trivia, that would be Ava Gardner, you know,

if we're doing a direct one-to-one autobiographical reading. It sounds a little bit autobiographical.

I don't know. The book takes an unexpected turn, so a spoiler. It says this on the dust cover. The book takes an unexpected turn, so a spoiler.

It says this on the dust cover.

The book takes an unexpected turn. It takes an unexpected turn when unlike every other Hollywood celebrity his age,

Sonny is suddenly drafted into the service of his country to fight on the front lines.

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