- Oh, To Be a Giggly Girl Again
If you have a daughter between the ages of ten and eighteen, you’ve heard of the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. The fourth book in the series, Breaking Dawn, is released today, August 2nd, but the true fans stayed up last night to buy the book at midnight on the dot. Release parties were held all over the country. We arrived at our local bookstore, Village Books, at just after 11PM to find a spirited but paltry crowd, maybe ten girls. But the yummy cookies and cupcakes kept us company until more girls (only girls and all of them teens and pre-teens) showed up. Soon the employees started games, including a trivia game with questions so detailed I’m sure I wouldn’t have been able to answer them if they were about my own life. My daughter’s team won because her girlfriend knew all the answers, always nice to have an expert on your side! At a minute to midnight, the countdown began. I tripped up counting backwards from 60 to 1 at midnight, but all of the girls were so excited when the doors finally opened that I was a giggly girl all over again.
As we walked back to the car, I heard one mother yell “no walking and reading, wait until you get to the car.” My daughter and her girlfriend were on page 20 by the time we arrived home, were reading past 1AM and again first thing in the morning when I woke up. It’s going to be a quiet day.
I grew up in Palm Springs, CA where the temperature is over 100 degrees multiple months of the year. So, opposite to the East coast winter season but under the same theory, the summer season meant hours staying out of the weather and reading. When we recently drove to Scottsdale, AZ for my daughter and I to attend a program at Taliesin West and the boys to golf, I felt the oppressive heat before I stepped out of the air-conditioned car. But knowing that reading helped me survive the summers, I suspected a good bookstore was in the area, and I was right. Read the rest of this entry »
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