June-July Reading

“What are you reading this summer?” I ask our grandchildren, knowing Grandma Kay would encourage them as well.  June is nearly gone, begging the question in past tense, “What did you enjoy reading for the first month of vacation?”  August will be a rush of one-more-trip and back-to-school activities.  That leaves the lazy month of July ... after celebrating the Fourth, of course.  (Deseret Book advertised rewards for “summer reading ... through July 28th”.)

I was pleased last Friday to see our little grandsons picking up and reading books at the Treehouse Museum — so fun at The Junction in Ogden, across the street from our apartments.  Good to see so many children’s books throughout that educational center.

A favorite memory of my summer at YMCA Camp Roger as a 17-year-old counselor is reading stories of the old West to my 8-year-old boys at night.  ( I still keep the book as a personal treasure.)

”Founded in 1948, YMCA Camp Roger is the perfect opportunity to experience the magic of Utah's amazing natural resources and to make lifelong memories.”  — ymcautah.org

As an adult, I rarely read fiction.  An exception is one I now find compelling: The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie, which Mrs. Cannon and her English teacher friends like.  I don’t write book reviews like Kay asked her students to do, but I could learn ... after I finish reading.