Sunday Salon: More Connie May!

Good morning to all my friends! Another crazy week is behind me, another week closer to the end of school! Is it just me, or do all of you with school-age kids get a little antsy as May draws near? Although I like my routine, I do look forward to a few months without homework, sports practices and a whole lot of running around. Which is what this week was all about. I also had a dentist appointment and a dermatologist appointment, and I was actually pretty verbal with them to just LEAVE ME ALONE! Stop poking me for just six months please. I had to balance out my doctor-angst with a respectable round of golf on Thursday.

It has gotten hot down here in Florida, with plenty of rain, so everything is growing again. Which means yard work and lots of sweating. We have had a strangely cold winter, so I'm actually ready for this. It also means that my walks may get ugly, but I won't give them up!

We had book club this week, and my BFF joined for the first time which was exciting. We discussed Lisa Scottoline's Look Again, which drew a fairly unanimously snarky attitude from all...unbelievable, predictable, but with some excellent discussion points, which we pursued spiritedly over wine. (Review coming next week.) No word on the next pick yet...

Highlight of the week! Connie May Fowler came back into town for a signing at Borders. She invited me to share a glass of wine with herself and some other friends afterwards at a nearby restaurant, and who was I to not make this work out? About a dozen of us, mostly people from her past creative writing classes, all sat around talking and laughing and having a ball. I was drawing on my super-human strength to NOT act like an infatuated fangirl idiot. She was such a delight to hang out with...one of these people that makes sure she focuses on each and every person at the table, and has a big enough heart to love us all.

Smaller but still exciting highlight of the week! I finally got an iPhone. This is the first time I've had a phone that was actually manufactured in the decade in which it is being used. As luck would have it, my old phone stopped working earlier in the week, and the cheapest alternative was to buy out the contract that expires in July (my husband accuses me of accidentally on purpose running over it with my car). Now I can Facebook and Twitter on-the-go! I'm on the lookout for cool bookish apps - any recommendations would be appreciated!

So my reading week was fairly productive. I finished On Folly Beach by Karen White, and this was a real treat. What's not to love about a book that covers WWII, a South Carolina barrier island, a little indie bookstore, lovers' notes found in old first edition books, and a lighthouse? Review and guest post coming in a couple of weeks, when the book is released. I also read The Outsiders and watched the movie for the Read the Book/See the Movie Challenge. Now I'm giddily embarking on my Prey books for the upcoming tour in mid-May. I do so love Lucas Davenport. The kids and I are making good progress on the 6th Harry Potter audiobook, I finished Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed (which left me confused and bereft), and am now on the long journey of listening to Under the Dome by the masterful Stephen King.

My latest Bookmarks mag just showed up, so it is time to do a little drooling over books I probably will never get to read unless I clone myself!

Am I boring you? I just realized I'm getting lengthy. I'm feeling chatty this fine morning. Joy spilleth over. Pass it on. Life is good. Have a great Sunday!