Good morning from Camp (day 4).  I feel pretty good (even though I have not ventured out of my room yet for coffee…) 😛 

Yesterday we had a morning Yoga session and worked with the exercise ball – that was fun!  Yesterday afternoon we went on a  pontoon ride, so while I am here writing…. it’s not all work and no play!  😀

Today is our last full day at camp and while I have really enjoyed being here and meeting everyone and learning SO MUCH, it will be nice to get home tomorrow afternoon and get back into a normal routine like catching up on my blog reading!  😀

Speaking of reading – I am doing some of that too.  I have been reading In The Sea There Are Crocodiles in the afternoon, and at night I have been reading Escape by Barbara Delinsky. Both are pretty decent reads. 

and even being away – I am still reading emails and still coveting books that are coming to my attention…currently I have two that are drawing my interest. 

In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.

But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle settlement none of their family had ever heard of and died there alone. A famed physician, her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he left home becomes a riddle Natalia is compelled to unravel.

Grief struck and searching for clues to her grandfather’s final state of mind, she turns to the stories he told her when she was a child.

and suddenly this series has my eye….  and looks like I have some catching up to do…

As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches. And as the ceaseless Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many. The consequences of each action, each word, are unspeakably vast: To follow a tyrant or a terrorist? To save the life of the one you love most, or thousands of strangers? To believe in redemption, or assume it is lost? Becoming adults amid the turmoil, Todd and Viola question all they have known, racing through horror and outrage toward a shocking finale.

 

 

 

 

 

This second book is not out until mid September but there are two books in front of it – the first of which, The Knife Of Never Letting Go, I think I have.  I will check that out when I get home.

Have a great day everyone – time for me to get up and be social…. and yeah…. I really need my coffee.  😛