Book number 78--slow down!

Fair tomorrow!  I'm all hyper and Callie's like, big deal.  It's a sad coincidence that our Lion King musical coincides with Comic Com at the Irving Convention Center.  Even if we tried to go, we'd miss four hours of a festival that only lasts eight.  Plus travel time--on the Dart Rail, a half hour there and back.

So, here's another teen read from the Him She Loved chapter.






                                                  In Summer Light
                                                   by Zibby O'Neal


 Kind of what I expected from a teen classic.  It's more about finding yourself than it is about finding your true love, and I enjoyed the self-discovery aspect immensely.  The love angle wasn't half as well described as the girl's yearning to paint pictures.  And the relationship (or lack of) between the girl and her father was superbly depicted--not in a preachy, "telling the story" kind of way, but in the best tradition of uncovering the truth by "showing the story."  Superb.

Not that I'd call this a great book, but it was well worth the 99 cents plus four dollars shipping and handling I paid for it.  I wish these mail order places didn't need to handle things quite so much.