Red Room Where the Writers Are

Fearing that I wouldn't have any more library books to read, I stopped at the library on the way home from our daily walk to the post office.  Weather permitting, my husband and I usually walk to the post office and other various places around town.  It makes the pedometer geek in me happy for one thing. 

I know that I will finish up Love in the Present Tense today;  it is a compelling story (I wasn't sure at first).  It is my library book group book chosen for the month of July.  Although I have a couple of books to read (Phoenix: Firestorm and Landscapes with Fragmented Faces), I also have a deadline of July 22nd to read six library books.  The funny thing is that I will read those two but they won't count for the Summer Reading Program at the local library.  It shouldn't matter what books I read.  The whole point is to read!  I would do that even if I had no compelling reason, but I am also competitive enough that I hate to fail any challenge like this.  And, to me, it is a challenge.  Silly, isn't it?

I picked two more books up on the walk home.  Once again, I tried to pick an author that I had never read before rather than an old favorite.  Thus, I now have Ann B. Ross' Miss Julia Speaks her Mind (the first in a series) and Warren Adler's Mourning Glory novels to read.   I chose the first because I saw that there was a new Miss Julia... on the new releases shelf and I figured I might as well start at the beginning of the series rather than jumping to the end.  The other novel by Adler, I chose for the title alone.  You see, my dad calls me "Morning Glory" or perhaps he just says "Morning, Glory"...it doesn't matter which; he knows how to make me feel special whether he realizes it or not.