IS EVERYONE ON VACATION??????????

[rapa]

We've home now from Scott and White Hospital in Temple, TX, where hubby received a procedure to help him heal and regain strength. Our son flew down from Utah to transport us and to help us for a week. We refer to this as our vacation as we did travel and got to spend a couple nights at the Hilton Garden Inn. At least I did! Didn't take a book as really no time to read. Fortunately two books on my reserve list are almost down to my turn. I think they are: WINNER TAKE ALL and ALL FALL DOWN. Did I tell you how much I enjoyed THE MATCHMAKER prior to our trip? Excellent summer read! Am not yet ready ro strain the brain!

What are you doing this summer?

[Lip Service]

Welcome back home Rapa and dear hubby.

Can't call mine a vacation, I am up to my ears in late work. No time to read either but stealing a few pages when I can from The Martian's Daughter   a non-fiction memoir

[Flowergram]

Welcome back Rapa and hope your husband is doing well and continues to  regain his strength.  Having him in the hospital is certainly not a vacation.  I just finished Harlan Coben's book - Promise Me and am now reading C.J. Box's - Stone Cold.  I need nice summer reads too.  The summer sure is going fast.  I suppose everyone else is busy too.  Winter will bring time I hope for more reading.  Hope you get some time now to relax and read.  Hope the weather where you are is good.  Here in Ohio - we have had a week in the 70's with 50 to 60 at night - simply heaven to me.  I sleep extra well .  My summer has been spent mostly trying to keep up with the grass and with all the rain we have had here, it has been like spraying fertilizer on it to grow. LOL. 

[Mandy Muffin]

I'm always on vacation and have been doing so for going on 18 years now.  I did book a cruise to Rio for next winter.  But my days have been spent playing golf in the wonderful weather we are enjoying in Kentucky this year.  Today is in the mid 70s. 

I'm keeping up with the reading schedule as I am in the midst of great read, "Canada" by Richard Ford. A 15 year old boy and his sister are shocked when their parents are arrested as bank robbers.  A former Air Force career professional left the service with a few bad habits, including scheming some illegal beef to local merchants in Great Falls, Montana.  But when the tables turn on him he is left in a financial bind that he tries to solve by robbing a bank in North Dakota.  His wife comes along as the get-away driver. Without any parents, the son moves to Canada to avoid the orphanage. 

[Carci]

Welcome back rapa...

This site is quiet recently...  boo... hiss!

I finished The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls...  it was very good...

I'm now reading On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt... it started out like an episode of the Twilight Zone but it has a plausible ending in the near future... 

[Ioruach]

I've been doing reunions. First a family one, where we got together, drank a few brews and rehashed the past few months. That was followed by a class reunion a couple days later. I was amazed by the number of old people who showed up at that one. But it was enjoyable.

I the meantime I also read a book called Watching You, a thriller type by Michael Robotham. Has anyone else read this author? It was the first one for me. More easy Summer reading. Pretty good. Hope everyone is enjoying the Summer. It seems to be passing by rapidly.

[rapa]

Has anyone read this book?

The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals
by Wendy Jones

I picked it up today when picking up my reserve ALL FALL DOWN by Jennifer Weiner.

[Ioruach]

Good grief! Where did you come up with that one, Rapa? (The Jones one, not the Weiner one.)

[rapa]

Just lucky, I guess, loruach. It was just sitting on the new book shelf beckoning to me. :) I'm hoping it's a finder's delight as was THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY.

[Ioruach]

That would be a wonderful stroke of luck.

[Eaglewoman]

Not sure where to put this. Last night went to a lecture by  Ann Franks step-sister. Eva Schloss. She just wrote a book "After Auschwitz" Night 1 hour, no time for questions as the Jewish Sabbath was to start at 7:30 so all those people had to leave. Was very interesting and not an empty seat in the house. Just bought the book for my NOOk, hope to have time to read it in the next week.

[rapa]

Must have been a spellbound lecture!! How old is Eva Schloss?

[Eaglewoman]

She is 84 and I think they said it was Ann Franks b/d last week and she would have been 82.