Friday, June 13, 2008

A Good Summer Read


It's a quiet, lazy Friday afternoon and I am getting ready to take time out to relax and enjoy a perennial favorite summer novel, Carney's House Party by Maude Hart Lovelace.


Did you, and do you, love the Betsy-Tacy books as much as I?


If you're a fan, you know that Carney is Betsy's chum from Deep Valley, and that during the summer between her sophomore and junior years at Vassar she hosted a house party. Her guests were her Eastern college roommate, Isobel; her old high school friend, Bonnie, who moved to Paris during freshman year, and of course, the irrepressible Betsy.


The primary conflicts centers around the return to Deep Valley of Carney's high school beau, Larry (he and his family had moved to California a few years earlier), and her growing feelings for Deep Valley newcomer Sam Hutchison.


So with that being said, I won't give anything more away...I'll just quietly slip away to Deep Valley, MN, circa 1911--my ultimate getaway. Best of all, it's free! No airports, no hotel meals, no schlepping luggage!