Welcome back girls!  I hope everyone had a great summer - though after browsing Miss Campbell's blog I can see that I definitely had the middle-aged version of summer holidays.  Lounge chairs and porch swings for me and my most exciting trip was to see the Crooked Bush in Hafford.   Very spooky, though.  Possible alien involvement, I think.   Life is just full of thrills when you're married to Mr. C.

Also visited the giant moose in Moose Jaw (anatomically correct, btw, to the fascination of my three-year-old nephew) which was also very thrilling.  Did enjoy some great coconut curry chicken fingers at this great diner there.  Those random people are my sister, nephew and parents.  You might recognize Quinn and Charlie.  I guess I could have done a bungee jump off of the moose antlers now that I look at it.  Maybe next year.

Anyway, I did read some great books and am looking forward to chatting about them at book club, or with anyone who sidles up to the counter down in the library!  I'm thinking we'll leave our book club days the same as last year, but let me know your feelings on that over the next few days.

I saw on another blog that there is a new book called "Romeo and Juliet and Vampires" and I'm going to try to be as fancy as my nemesis and insert a HarperCollins widget to allow you to browse inside the book here:

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I'm not sure if it will work but will test it later to see if it's actually functional!  Yay it is!!

I know we are "walking in the word" this year and I shouldn't be starting off with a zombie recommendation, but I am just finishing up "Never Slow Dance With A Zombie" and as strange as it sounds, it has some awesome messages in it about the true meaning of friendship, the false promises of popularity, and how to sort out your values as a teenager (all while coping with a zombie infestation of course.) A surprisingly good read.

In the non-fiction genre I LOVED "Med Head" by James Patterson. We talked about it at book club, but I actually read it in its entirety this summer. Wow, what a survival story with a great message for anyone who has struggled with fitting in at school. The young man in the book spent all of elementary and high school coping with both OCD and Tourettes and the horrible side effects of all of the medications he was prescribed for his conditions. I know a few of you would REALLY enjoy this book.

That's all for now - see you tomorrow!