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Dear Readers,
Summertime speaks to me of many things, one of them is reading. As a kid, I used to drive my mother nuts because every week I'd go to the library, take out another 10 books, and then read them all. The library was a haven to me and I knew it better than most. Books were the perfect escape on a humid day, when the air didn't go anywhere and I was all played out from riding my bike in endless loops around the school play yard.
As I grew up, the marrying of reading with summertime didn't change. While I tend to read pretty much all of the time in the summertime, my reading changes. While I totally lament the fact that summertime no longer means a lazy hiatus from hard work, I still look forward to the season that speaks of light reading and lots of it.
The summer reading season is off to a roaring start. There's a great array of great summer reading - light yet smart. The "beach read" and "chick lit" seems to be at perfection this year with a new crop of writers, along with the seasoned lot, realizing that "beach read" and "chick lit" don't have to be synonymous with "mental floss."
We're busy at work on a fall author event schedule - planning Meet-the-Author Breakfasts, Just Books Coffeehouse events and in-store author visits and signings. We'll be sure to send the fall schedule to you in early August so that you can get your fall and winter planning done early … in the meantime, check out what's already planned because it promises to be a wild and wooly fall! We're going to start with a big bang by singing Happy Birthday to legendary author Stephen King on September 20 at Just Books, Too. A little known fact is that Stephen King and I share the same birthday! No gypsy pie, though …
And, finally, all of our reviews and reading suggestions for this newsletter are adult. We'll be back with kid's reviews in the fall … happy summer reading to all!
Jenny, Thomas, Thomas and Nicholas Lawton
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