Recently re-reading His Dark Materials, my girlfriend at the time called and said she was going to come over. I told her sure but not to expect too much of anything because I was probably just going to read the night away. Unfortunately she didn't believe me and was very annoyed when she finally realized that all her feminine charm was not going to pull me from my book. Needless to say our relationship didn't last too long...but Lyra, Will and I will be friends forever. I love me some good 'ol book lust and I'm glad you do too!

I have this feeling with all of Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson books.

I couldn't shut up about The Lumiere Affair by Sara Voorhees. I guess it was my summer romance, but I could so see myself reading it again...

I felt that way about Ordinary Ghosts by Eireann Corrigan. I cannot stop thinking about her main character, Emil.

I love Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight. I've read it at least 15 times and even managed to find a way to use it as the primary text for my college thesis. There still comes a point every year when I just have to pull out that book and read it again.

I loved Linda Urban's novel, too. In fact I read most of it out loud to myself (I guess that's okay since I'm a 55 year old bookseller and live alone) and couldn't stop laughing. What an absolutely delightful novel for all ages.

Huh. This is the same kind of response I saw to "Higher Power of Lucky" before it won the Newbery. Methinks we may have a sleeper hit on our hands. Time to start taking bets...

Okay. So best line ever, "Victoria will be playing 'Gettin' Jiggy Wit It' on the Perfectone J-70." I loved the book.