I'm hearing some serious thunder outside, so I'm only going to stay on for a few minutes, in case of power fluctuations.

My week in photos is over, but for those who saw yesterday's installment, I'll mention here that the Big Flea sale today seemed to be a Big success. (That's the annual flea market to raise money for my son's school; I helped set up for it yesterday. Love the flea logo, below) I haven't seen figures yet for how much money was raised, but there was a lot of stuff and a lot of people, so I'm guessing that will translate to a lot of money.  I bought a bag of books, some GeoTrax train tracks for my little boy, and a glass bowl. And then I went back again after 2 p.m., when all remaining merchandise was given away for free, and picked out another bag of books to bring tomorrow for the BookCrossing booth at Kensington, Maryland's Day of the Book street festival.

 

My book about Dragons has won an award. I recently attended the spring conference and awards luncheon of Virginia Press Women and received the First Place award for Children's Nonfiction books. The first-place statewide winner in each category is automatically entered in the national communications contest of the National Federation of Press Women. NFPW will announce national contest winners at its conference in September in Idaho.

 

I've put together the list of books that my book club will be reading for the next 10 months or so. Turnout has been lousy lately (if anyone lives near Alexandria, Virginia, and is looking for a book club to join, you are welcome)! But our members did suggest plenty of books to add to the list. We read fiction and nonfiction, classics, bestsellers, obscure books, and just about anything else we can think of, though we prefer books that are already out in paperback. Now if I can just get people to show up for the meetings....

Here is what we're reading for each month: