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“Andy … the summer’s over. I never noticed. Did you really think you’d leave so fast.”

This isn’t exactly what it looked like today, in fact there were a few sun breaks, but it wasn’t that far from it. The last couple of days have been rainy as we seemingly move towards the closing of summer. I can’t say that I’m all that sad. I do love the fall and even the winter.

The best thing about both? It’s excellent book weather. While this summer I finished The Other Boleyn Girl (a guilty pleasure read) and Among The Thugs (about the hooligan era of football in England) and the second and third Sandman volumes (excellent!), I’ve put myself in the mood for fall by beginning the Twilight series. On Sunday, I had gotten Twilight from the library and read it all which then prompted a book emergency that required a late afternoon drive to the store to pick up the next book, New Moon. Thank goodness they had the book! I spread that out over a day and a half (by purposefully saving the last chapter for yesterday evening). Now, here I am … having an awful craving for the third in the series of four books.

Set in Forks, WA, it’s just the kind of book that sets the tone for fall reading with descriptions of drizzly, misty days and the lush forests of the Olympic Peninsula. These books definitely combine the allure of the un-dead (that’s right, I said allure!) with experience of being a teenager and all of the feelings that come along with it. I cannot wait to pick up the next book tomorrow. I’ll do my best not to call in sick to hide at Elliott Bay all day reading and sipping coffee!