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Summer is almost at an end here in the US. If school hasn’t started yet, it soon will, and the stores are filling up with corduroy and tweed and heavy fabrics. But in case you need a lift and a mental note to go run in the sprinkler while it’s still warm, here’s two baby moose this past June, playing in the sprinkler with their mom.

Thanks to Diane for the link. 

Country star LeAnn Rimes is going to star as heroine Meg Galloway in the Lifetime TV adaptation of Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights.

According to People magazine, Rimes is very excited about the role, but also aware of the sudden fascination with women from Alaska:

Rimes will play Meg Galloway, a feisty bush pilot who knows how to handle a gun, living in tiny Lunacy, Alaska – though comparisons to Sarah Palin should not be drawn.

“Funny timing, I know,” Rimes said with a smile. “But the similarities end there. Meg Galloway is a very young and single woman.”

She’s also a bush pilot, a hell of a shot with a rifle, and takes no crap from anyone. Interesting casting choice since I always envisioned Meg as similar to the character she most reminded me of: Maggie O’Connell from Northern Exposure.

I’ve never seen Rimes acting, though, damn, can the woman sing, so I’ll set the DVR to record it when it’s on. But I admit: I have my reservations. Her IMDB filmography seems to indicate she’s appeared as a performer on a variety of programs, and she’s done a “one of” appearance on Days of Our Lives. But I don’t see a lot of full-on movie acting roles. I hope she pulls it off - this is one of my favorite Roberts’ books. Even if the paperback is in the inconvenient venti size.

Nicole writes:

Okay, I have absolutely no desire to read this book (again), but I’ve got to know what it is.  It’s the first wall-banger I ever came across and I did literally throw it across the room and even remember making a dent in the wall.  I read it about ten years ago, so it’s most likely mid 90’s or earlier.

Anyways, it’s set in the US, I think during the Alaskan gold rush.  Heroine is some socialite or heiress or something.  Anyways, through some circumstances that I don’t remember, she ends up going to Alaska, I think to find her betrothed.  I swear she ends up prostituting herself because she’s broke.  Which I think is where I threw the book across the room.  I remember it the writing being completely over the top and most likely there were bodices being ripped.  So help, anyone know of any formerly wealthy prostitute heroines in the Klondike?

I vaguely remember that there was a lot of blue on the cover.  I know, my memory is bad, but I’ve really been wanting to remember what book this was.

Oh...wow. Ho in the Snow?! Someone must remember this one. I hope!