Teaser....

Don't worry, it's not quite time to trade your flip-flops for file folders or your beach towels for binders. You still have a few more precious weeks of summer ahead. But it *is* time to ask yourself how you will use each remaining minute of your summer vacation wisely, and what better way than to build in time to read the summer selection for the Salk staff book club?

For those of you who are new to Salk, or who may still be new to the book club, the staff book club is an opportunity to get together once a month to discuss provocative professional literature and engage in invigorating conversation with some of your fabulous colleagues while also eating piles of Belgian fries and drinking half-price bottles of wine (or eating cheap, yummy falafel sandwiches and drinking mugs of hot chocolate, depending on how the mood strikes that month).

However, for the summer, in the spirit of tapping into young adult literature and getting to know the books many of our students love, we have decided to read a YA book, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. (This is the first in what is currently a trilogy, so be sure and check out The Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse if you get really hooked.) We're going to meet at 2 PM on Wednesday, August 29th, probably at Petite Abeille on 1st Ave. and 20th Street (that's the Belgian fries & wine place, for the as-yet-uninitiated). It'll be a chance not only to discuss a popular YA book but also to bond a day early with your fellow Salkies before we officially return on the 30th.

A good YA book, good people, good fries... what's not to like? So, mark your calendar and get a copy of the book -- and have a great rest of your summer.

Hoping to see you on August 29th,

Pauline
(lit. coach)