Summer

July15, 2008
Eva Ibbotson is another really cool author. She lived in Poland about the time of World War II. She has several books set in Europe during the wars there which are also romances: A Countess Below Stairs and A Song for Summer. Another one is a mystery about an orphan girl and horses in Austria: Star of Kazan. Once I started reading, I couldn't put them down.

I am now in Arizona visiting family. I am almost finished with the Leven Thumps series by Obert Skye. It is about a boy who has had a very hard start in life. His destiny is to save Foo, the place where the dreams of Reality are processed. Even when he gets to Foo life is not always easy, but Leven meets his grandmother, and eventually, he sees his mother for about a minute, just long enough to want to see more of her. This is an interesting fantasy series with many new creatures.
I have learned about many new Web 2.0 tools in some training that I have been doing this summer. I hope to be able to use them personally and in my job at the library.