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It's hot; not cool hot or Paris Hilton hot, but sweat beading on upper lip hot. It's too hot to even look at my to-do list. My inner hillbilly says it's hotter than a two pecker billy goat. I swear my brain is melting as I click on the keyboard. Do I dare say it? I think it's too hot to read.
The fire images are from my Beltane bonfire with a bonus witchy self-portrait. A hot time was had by all.

Heat and laziness are kissing cousins, so not only is this post late, I tried cutting corners by doing a collage instead of uploading images one by one. The result is ugh and who cares? I'd rather loll with the cats in the new summer living room AKA porch. Here's a first peek with Merlin hogging the NY Times. Okay, I did read my usual amount, more or less...

I can see this new collage thingy is not working. Too small, can't read the smaller text.  It's no accident that I chose two books with the same color jackets. The better to match your porch decor madam? Better luck next week.


This week's turquoise selections won't tax anyone's brain. Listen, we can't read Dostoevsky every week. These pastel babies make for pleasant escapism on a beach or subway train. Years ago, I thought Hope in a Jar would make great title for a book. Beth Harbison thought so too. It's a story of two former high school BFFs who reconnect on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion. She has a very funny blog Beth Harbison

I quite enjoyed Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright, except for the ending. An unhappily married woman has an affair with a married man with all the bells and whistles. This sentence from the novel capture the theme beautifully,“You always forget this part, that life regenerates itself underground through the winter, that happiness comes back. You forget that your body has the capacity for joy, that it craves it like water.  You forget that one thing can end and another can begin. There is always a way out through the broken places…” This is Kim Wright's debut novel and it bodes well for her writing future.