Well, another summer has come and gone, and this year's summer months were untraditional to say the least. The April showers of spring gave way to...well, June showers, and it seems like we had a very limited amount of hot beach days. However, it has been a great season for kids' books, and hopefully fall will bring more traditional weather (albeit, I wouldn't mind a few more weeks of warmth before I need to grab the sweaters!), as well as some more fabulous reads.

Well, another summer has come and gone, and this year's summer months were untraditional to say the least. The April showers of spring gave way to...well, June showers, and it seems like we had a very limited amount of hot beach days. However, it has been a great season for YA, and hopefully fall will bring more traditional weather (albeit, I wouldn't mind a few more weeks of warmth before I need to grab the sweaters!), as well as some more fabulous reads.

The leaves are falling, and each time I hear one plunk to the ground (they sound louder than usual this year) I realize summer is behind us. Oh yes, the “colors of fall” are just lovely, but each time the wind blows I feel like the warm days are flying out of here way too quickly. Today, as I was driving around town doing some errands, I was trying to remember the trivia fact about which tree loses its leaves first; you know those things you learn in elementary school when you have lots of memory cells ready to dedicate to things like this. That factoid definitely was lost.

As I write this, it’s the first day of fall and, apparently (according to Wikipedia), I am banging on my keyboard at the exact time of day that fall is beginning. I’m right in the moment. And that’s good.