Okay, here's the deal. When did people become "that" instead of "who?" I hear this on the radio on the TV ( and shouldn't news reporters know better )? and unless my memory is wrong, have even read it in places. Why? How hard is it to remember that people require a "who"? And here's another--myself instead of me. My boss did this all this time and it drove me crazy. Are we so afraid to be in the spotlight that we have to say, "So-and-so and myself did such-and-so?"
So I haven't been hiding under the bedcovers or anything, in fact, I have actually gotten out of the house with other book lovers, .....once. Just the other night. Here we are in Birkdale, an outdoor shopping center with great restaurants, neat little boutique stores and of course, a bookstore, not indie, but a book store.
As we talked about books and were impressed by the YA section of the local Barnes and Noble (I haven't been impressed in the past but it has really stepped up it's game), I think we might have sold some books. I know somebody in our group helped someone find THE MAZE RUNNER for a young boy that wanted to read it. I'm also afraid I heard the parent trying to talk him out of it, but I'm hoping that wasn't what I heard. But yes, we talked books and found out all four of us had already read WE WERE LIARS and loved it.
From left to right is Lisa of Diznee's World of Books, Heather Anne of Turning Pages, me, and Joli of Actin' Up With Books! Thanks to Joli, I met Lisa and Heather Anne earlier in the year and was able to meet up with them again when Joli came to town. We had a fabulous dinner at Brixx Pizza and then went on to Barnes and Noble. We had fun there too. Evidence is below!
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| Book Binge!!! |
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| Show OFF!! My Book Friends!! |
Okay, so this is really more like the book stacks. My books are somewhere else. Lisa and I both bought The Sound by Sarah Alderson. According to Heather Anne it's really great.
So, I have to say, it was so much fun to hang out with adults. I don't think I have had a day without kids since school ended. And a girls night? Uh....maybe the last time a friend got married and I was catering it. Does that count? Yeah, no I don't think so. I had such a good time. It kind of filled the well for me. Each of us are very different but love books. It's common ground for all of us, I'm pretty much the grandmother of the group and Heather Anne is the baby. But none of that mattered. As you can see, we had a blast!
Hope you guys are having some book fun somewhere in the world this summer!!
And for the Americans in the group
Happy Fourth of July!!!
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