I grew up reading Ann's Baby-Sitters Club books (mostly the 80s and early 90s stuff). I haven't read any other books by Ann, so receiving this from Netgalley was a great gift. I am looking forward to reading more books. Like Rain Reign, A Corner of the Universe and A Dog's Life are all on my TBR list.

Bummer Summer was good. It was realistic and had a lot of likable characters. Kammy had some pre-teen angst and didn't like changes from her little bubble of a world. Kammy, her father and new family did change; a new Step-Mother (but not like the Evil ones in fairytales that she's knows), a very young new little Step-Sister and a baby Step-Brother.

Kammy then goes on a trip to Summer Camp to escape from the drama at home (unpacking and so on). I have never been to a Summer Camp, so it was fun reading about all the adventures she had there. The description of the camp and there activities was great.

A fun and nostalgic reading.

At first I wasn't so sure about reading this book. Mostly beause I prejudged this as a young adult book only. This was around 2001. The books at this time were given to my youngest sister (I was 22 at the time making her 16). She read them and then handed them to me hoping I'd read them -little sis knowing I love to read. I forgot about them until the first movie came out. I don't recall if I read the book first or saw the movie. But either way, I learned I was wrong to prejudge this series. Since then I've been hooked to everything Potter.

When the book 'Order of the Phoenix' was released in 2003, I was in the Navy. I was lucky enough to get 'Order of the Phoenix' and later 'Half-Blood Prince' in the Bloomsbury publishing editions. So as of now I currently own all 7 Scholastic hardcovers, 7 Scholastic paperbacks and 2 Bloomsbury hardcovers. As well as 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' hardcover. And 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,' 10th Anniversary Edition [Deluxe Edition] [Hardcover]. I also own all 8 of the movies (all special editions of course).

I am currently 36 years old and I'm still a fan. A fan of all Harry Potter. And a fan of J.K.Rowling -purchased ebook of 'Casual Vacancy' the day it was released.

Harry Potter is a very charming orphaned boy who finds out he can do magic. He then goes to this amazing school called Hogwarts. A school even I wish I could attend to.

Harry Potter bless you

2014
✔ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (kindle own w/ iTunes audio) 5★♥♥

I've seen the movie quite a few times and have enjoyed it. It has a lot of actors that I really liked. And I tried reading the book a few times last year. I found it funny, but very slow. So this time I read it along with the audiobook read by Stephen Fry. I guess I needed that little help because I don't often read science fiction books about space travel, aliens, and so on. I like the movies, but reading them isn't as often.

Stephen Fry did a really great job on the audiobook reading. I felt that the beginning skipped around in a way that made it slow. I did not like Zaphod Beeblebrox at first (I liked him in the movie, well only because of Sam Rockwell). After first meeting Zaphod, the story picked up. There was some science talk that I wasn't interested in. So it was good that I was also listening to the audiobook in order to push past that. And there is eventually a much quicker, simpler meaning told after the science talk.

Arthur Dent and Marvin are still my favorites. And even with Stephen Fry's audio, I still imagined them as Martin Freeman and Alan Rickman. And I thought the book was a bit more funny than the movie was. I loved the ending, small spoiler - which was a little different than the movie's ending. So a slight surprise. And really hilarious./spoiler.

I have both the Ultimate Hitchhiker's hardcover book (collection of 5 books). And the first book in kindle format with a question/ answer bit with the cast from the movie. And then the appendix. The interviews were nice, but really long. Had to be about 20 questions for the casts. It was just something nice to read once. I don't think I'll be reading the Q&A for the movie again. I would watch the movie again.

And I am looking forward to reading the second book. With the audio of course.


Hitchhiker's Guide:
"“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen . . .” and so on."