October Coffee Date- FINALLY!
Well, it’s finally October! I can talk about fall and pumpkins all I want and no one can roll their eyes at me. (RIGHT? I hope no one is rolling their eyes right now!) Thanks to Coco and Deborah for hosting this coffee date. Pour some coffee (or earl grey tea) into your favorite Halloween mug and join us! On the subject of appropriate timing of holiday festivities, I would tell you about the odd experience I had yesterday at Nordstrom Rack. I was looking for some fall hand towels for the bathroom, but all I saw was this: Now, I love Christmas! But everyone knows you don’t start decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving (it’s the rule!) I don’t object to seeing it in the stores super early, but it literally took up the entire seasonal section. I will confess that I looked at the Christmas mugs- I love my mugs- but I was really looking for pumpkins. Sheesh. Switching gears…. I just finished this book. I’m not really sure what the point is in using a pseudonym, when everyone knows this is J.K. Rowling. I absolutely love everything she writes, and I loved this book. This is the sixth book in the series, and they really should be read in order. If you haven’t read any of them, I envy you! I would love to start on book 1 and read straight through the series again. Of course I don’t love these books as much as I love Harry Potter, but it’s the same writing that pulls me immediately into the story and the lives of the characters. One note- the mystery takes place around an online game, and there are many pages of in-game chats that are written in a smaller font. This wasn’t a problem in the physical book, but almost everyone complained in the reviews that it was unreadable on Kindle (I say “almost” everyone, because one person said they read the entire 1272 page book on their Kindle in 24 hours- I’m impressed!) Since I only read physical books, this didn’t affect me. But apparently there are a lot of angry Kindle readers out there. And lastly, if we were having coffee together, I would tell you I’m getting geared up once again for NaMoBloPo! It’s a 30 day blogging challenge where the goal is to post every day for the month of November. I know that sounds daunting, but I did it last year and it was really fun. There’s a great camaraderie among the participants, and I would love it if more people did it this year. If you’re interested, check out San’s post about it here. Have you read any great books lately? Does it annoy you to see Christmas things in October? -It doesn’t annoy me, but I don’t like it if that’s ALL I see- what happened to fall? Anyone interested in joining NaMoBloPo this year?