Beware the Nerd!

I am SUCH a dork.

I went to the bookstore on my lunch hour today to treat myself and ended up, in all places, the Young Adult section. I never browse there. (It was a mess - kids today!) But today I found this:




Look at this book!!

Is this not the cutest book you've ever seen??? Look at that cute drawing! Those pretty ladies and their dresses! The magical rings! The parasol!

And the plot sounds so sweet and inventive, and it has awesome old-fashioned font, and it's over 400 pages so it's a good long read. And this book even smells good. I had to have it.

My only regret is that I'm not twelve because it would be even better if I was twelve. When I was twelve I had braces and a pair of knickers (in the American sense - you know, they buttoned snugly just below the knee) that I wore with argyle knee socks for an entire school year. I had no friends and my dad left and I got my period in gym and I would have LOVED this book. I would have dived into it and not surfaced for days.

Ah, well, I'll just have to dive in as a dorky adult, instead of a dorky kid.

Off to summer reading.