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Congratulations!

Hi Kaylee... yeah Superromances are thicker than most h/s books ~ I used to do a lot of selling on eBay. Canada Post uses the benchmark of 20 mm... if something is thicker than that then it's going to be a lot more expensive.  I checked and the Silhouette books are about 15 mm... so all should be good.
But I know what you mean; I sent out a regular sized mass market book and it cost me $12... that was within Canada.  I sent a box of books to the US for about the same price. Weird? You bet!

I've found the same Christa... I still shake my head at CP for the way they set up the standards.

Jessicue, I know... it always makes me a little crazy when I get a package from the US that's only a couple of dollars and I *know* that it would be double or triple that here. 

Just like Kaylee we had our early taste of winter a month ago.  The first snowfall melted within a day or so, but we had a second that lasted over a week... I mean even for Edmonton that's waaay too early! *sheesh*

It's been up and down temperature-wise, but it sounds at though, for the most part, what Kaylee's getting down south we're getting here. 

But really.. closer to the actual winter season would be nice!

first I do a little happy dance... thank heavens I'm usually alone, but even if the little kidlets are here I get all excited and jump up and down...and then have to answer questions like: "Why are you jumping Kathy?"... funny they don't get it anymore than my family does... Huh

I'd like to say that I log them in right away, but I usually have then sit on the desk beside me for a bit while I take in the fact that I have new books! ... to add to add to the towering tower of babel in here.  If it's a book that I've particularly been waiting for I sit and read it as soon as I can.  The others go onto the shelves for my TBR and then I spend the next however long figuring out which one is next!

PS. If a box of books got put in with the recycling?  After I had a heart attack I'd probably go on a mini-rampage ... my family might not get my absorption but they know better than to hide them from me!  Upset? just a wee bit!

I'm going to have to be a better time arranger... but I'll do my best.

It's quiet around here without me checking in on everyone now and again... I miss you all too.

with you!

My youngest, also 17 and in her last year of high school ,is the only one at home. But she's already talking ~ and planning ~ on leaving home next summer to move to the other side of the country. Our third child moved out just a couple of weeks ago and boy, does it ever seem emptier! Our youngest is having a hard time walking past Meagan's once-bedroom and keeps closing the door so that she can 'pretend' all's as usual.

Our two oldest left about the same time ~ our son, very gradually, moved out 2 years? 2½ years? ago and our oldest daughter started working away from home months at a time after she graduated from high school. But they both left for good around the same time... that was a huge change!

And while I don't feel older ~ and why I'm not sure ~ but looking at my kids? *sigh*

The first book that I'd recommend is Mikkel Birkegaard's The Library of Shadows. My brother loaned it to me when he was here and I devoured it; I couldn't bear to put it down.  A fabulous, fabulous story about the power of reading and how it can be abused... with a really sweet romance added.

In January my daughter introduced me to Brent Weeks and his Shadow trilogy ~ Way of Shadows, Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows. Fantasy all the way, but with a realism that added to the impact. These were his first books and I forsee that he's got an amazing career ahead of him!

And I have to second Tammy's (Yenastone) suggestion of Holly Jacob's Same Time Next Summer.  *whew*

Megan Hart's Deeper is from SPICE and it's... wow.. deep and emotional and refreshing and very, very powerful.  And even now, after months since I read it, it's enough to bring a tear to my eye.

Sharon Sala's The Warrior (or anything by her!); Karen Marie Moning's Fever series ~ Darkfever, Bloodfever, Dreamfever... dark, gritty, sometimes very humourous and a series that defies adequate description.  There will be another, possibly two, book released in the series. but wow. There is also a slight connection to her some of her Highlander books.  Fae, Sidhe Seers, good & evil battle... KMM is fantastic!

And yeah... sorry about going on and on... books do something to me!

OH and BTW, I loved your comment:  Doesn't say much for my willpower around books! 
Uh yeah, I can so relate!

PS. Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife is still one of my all-time favourites... and I've got to go see the movie!

And I'm going for sure this time.