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It’s been a busy week. Here are a few of the things I’ve been doing: Read What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell, and you should too. This YA book won the National Book Award. Even though,historical fiction is not my favorite genre, I decided to give this one a try, and am glad I did. It’s set in post-World War II America, and does an excellent job of capturing the mood of that time in a coming of age tale. Judy Blundell has been writing some different series books under other names for years, but this is the first book she published under her own name using her own original idea. Something tells me that this will be the first of many Judy Blundell books. Laughed out loud while reading The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk. I had...

Here’s a quick update of what I have been doing this weekend in the order of occurrence. 1. Yelled at a DVD I watched the movie Adam Friday night. It was a sort of Asperger love story. In general it was a good movie. My yelling didn’t come until the very end. Rose Byrne plays Beth the love interest of Aspergian title character played by Hugh Dancy. Beth is a teacher who dreams of being a published children’s book author. So far so good. At one point she tells Adam about her hope of someday winning a Newbery award. I was impressed that the moviemakers at least had some familiarity with children’s publishing. That all fell apart at the end when we finally got to see the book that Beth had been working on in published form. The problem? It...