My Yearly Paige Turner Sighting

About this time each year, I remember my old friend Paige Turner.

Because it's usually right aroud the time, I start to spend my days lounging by the ocean, working on my tan. Drinking fancy fruity drinks and reading the day away. Oh the life. Oh the luxury. Oh who am I kidding. I spend my beach days three steps behind the Hurricane making sure he doesn't eat seven pounds of sand, pull down his pants to pee on some kid's sandcastle, or get hauled off by that creepy guy with the metal detector.

However, if my name were Paige Turner, I'd be lounging like a mofo. And if my name were Paige Turner, this is what I'd recommend.

SPF 4
Light, fast-absorbing, quick coverage

• Gone with The Windsors by Laurie Graham
• Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
  
• Second Chance by Jane Green
  
• Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
  

SPF 30
Easy to use and non-greasy

• On Love by Alain de Botton
  
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  
• Saturday by Ian McEwan

SPF 50
Broad-spectrum protection, deflects, scatters and absorbs

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  
• In the Spirit of Happiness by The Monks of New Skete
  
• Watchdogs of Democracy? by Helen Thomas
  
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
  

So, this summer, just think "What Would Paige Read?" And then remember what she'd say..."readers are leaders." And then remember, the rest of us, because we're just trying to keep the kids from peeing in your fruity drink.

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And, also. Voting will be open until Sunday night at midnight. Democracy rules.