(Uplift by Thomas Allen)
As we swing into summer, let’s remember what summer is all about. Or what it used to be about when we were young: Freedom! I recently declared a summer of freedom in my reading (and have decided to steal a phrase coined by Dark Orpheus here: wanderlust reading). I am happy to see that others are posting about their summer freedom as well:
And what says summer freedom better than reading under a shade tree with a tall cold glass of lemonade?
How about Free Books?!?!?!
This is a new post, despite it having a similar Blue Poppet picture! 😉
No, the above picture doesn’t represent my feelings on not being as built as the guy in the picture! It represents my profound sadness of news that affects an author that we are all fond of, Colleen Gleason.
Yes, dear friends, Madame Gleason committed a grievous error…she signed a book “”Meghan–Happy Birthday!” The faux pas was that she signed the wrong book! And so, if you know anyone name Meghan with an upcoming birthday, you can get your name in the running for getting a free signed birthday gift! There is already one name in the pot over there, so act now!
And now for something completely different.
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.”
~Ada Louise Huxtable
And so we bid a fond, but sad, farewell to the Once Upon a Time Challenge. As it ends, thus ends Spring. Summer is upon us.
I have declared before that I am very much a whim reader. I tend to follow my fancies in reading, wherever they may lead. Hosting/participating in challenges causes me to try to reign in those whims and eventhough I thoroughly enjoy participating in challenges, it seems that books outside the challenge genre are never more attractive than when you’ve committed yourself to a specific reading regime! 🙂
“I am glad that you are here with me… Here at the end of all things…”
~Frodo Baggins, via the pen of J.R.R.Tolkien, The Return of the King
