As Spring Gets Ready for Summer

May is halfway over and I can't believe it. Since library books are generally due three weeks after check-out life can go by quickly in big, three-week chunks. As of today books were due on June 7th and that pretty much means it will be the end of the school year, summer reading will start in just a few days and hopefully it will be sunny all of the time. Sure, it won't officially be spring...but to me, summer truly starts when school is out and free time is on hand.

I've been thinking a lot lately of the lazy days of Allegheny and how it felt to sit on the front stoop of the Barn, drink in hand, laughing out loud with good friends. The end of the semester was equally as good as the beginning and sure we felt stressed about finals and papers then, but we know now how silly those stresses really were. I would love to have a weekend of my close friends together again, laughing until we cry. There are too many people scattered throughout this city, country and globe that I miss too much.

I've actually been thinking about starting an online book group so that those of us who love to read, but can't get together because of distance and time, could read the same book & discuss. It's an idea I've toying with for a long time, and one I'd like to see work in a library-setting too, but it would be more fun to do personally first. Is anyone interested? We could start by picking a book and maybe giving a month or two to read & discuss? Maybe even start with one that so many have already tackled?

And finally, I've been thinking about the books I've read so far this year. I owe book reviews & updates on this site...hopefully in the next few days. I finished my 18th book for the year. And am starting a new one tonight.