Jessica Day George likes books, chocolate, movies, knitting, Disneyland, very small dogs, and traveling. She has a husband and three small children, who live with her in an only slightly dusty house in the Salt Lake valley. She is the author of nine books to date, and the most recent (WEDNESDAYS IN THE TOWER) was on the New York Times Bestseller List.
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LDSWBR: What books do you plan/hope to read this summer?
JESSICA: Let’s see . . . Currently reading THE FIFTH WAVE by Rick Yancey. Next up: WARM BODIES by Isaac Marion (loved the movie!), ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins, BLOOD MOON and BLOOD PROPHECY by Alyxandra Harvey, IN DARKNESS by Nick Lake, DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT by Laini Taylor, THE SPARROW by Mary Doria Russell, ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL by James Herriot, and ANATHEM by Neal Stephenson, A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson, SUPERNATURALLY by Kiersten White . . . And that’s just for starters!
LDSWBR: Did you ever go to summer camp, and/or what is your most memorable camping experience?
JESSICA: I went to LDS girl’s camp for three years as a teen. I declined the fourth year, because you even had to pack your own toilet paper and carry everything with you. (And, according to rumor, carry it all back out, too. Yes. The toilet paper, too.) Yeah, not something that sounded fun. One year my friend Rebecca and I went to 4-H camp, which was held in nice cabins at this cool camp and sounded amazing. I’m sure it was fine, but all I remember, though, is that for inspections we tried to mop our cabin floor by squirting it with water from someone’s contraband Super Soaker, and it just made mud. Our counselor started crying. We did not win the cleanest cabin award.
LDSWBR: If you could have a summer home anywhere in the world, where would it be?
JESSICA: Somewhere on a fjord in Norway. (Of course!)
LDSWBR: Thank you so much, Jessica! I just gave my niece WEDNESDAYS for her birthday since I gave her TUESDAYS last year. She was very excited, and I found out she’s read TUESDAYS four times. I need to bring her to your next signing so you can autograph her books. :)
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Find Wednesdays in the Tower
AMAZON (Hardcover & Kindle) | BARNES & NOBLE (Hardcover & Nook) | DESERET BOOK | GOODREADS
A castle that is constantly rearranging itself, and a young royal family sworn to protect it… Celie, Rolf, and their beloved Castle Glower are back in this exciting sequel.
Strange things are afoot in Castle Glower: new rooms, corridors, and even stables keep arriving, even when they aren’t needed. Celie’s brother Bran, the new Royal Wizard, has his hands full cataloguing an entire storeroom full of exotic and highly dangerous weapons, while Celie has her hands full . . . raising the creature that hatches from a giant egg she finds! Will they be able to find out what’s making the Castle behave this way in time?
Have you read any of the books on Jessica’s summer reading list? OR, have you ever been to Norway?
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