Your gym friends miss you.

Pet Pick

Mei is a playful, 11-month-old Pit Bull Mix with a heart of gold! She loves people so much and would spend all day with them if she could. She also gets along with most dogs, though she prefers pets that will let her steal all the toys and treats. She is a princess after all. If she really likes them she will share. Mei is available for foster or adoption and is housebroken. To adopt Mei, visit PAWSAtlanta.org or the shelter at 5287 Covington Highway, Decatur.

Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel, “Gone With the Wind,” is 80 this year. Written mostly while she lived in a tiny apartment at the corner of Crescent Avenue and 10th Street (which is now the Maragaret Mitchell House), the novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster film in 1939. Mitchell’s tale of the Old South’s final bow during the Civil War as seen through the eyes of fiery heroine Scarlett O’Hara was her only novel, and she shunned the fame that it brought her. Today, the novel is viewed through a more critical lens. Some consider it a masterpiece, while many regard the book as a racist relic of the South with its stereotypical and derogatory depiction of slaves. A recent Harris/Nielsen poll found “Gone With the Wind” to be American readers second favorite book just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide.