Originally published at Eight Hobbits

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If you are like me, you looked around at all the Halloween decorations that appeared in August, a full 3 months before the holiday, and you knew the world has officially lost its mind. Then, even before the spooks and ghouls have gone, Christmas will take over the aisles at Costco. It’s September 19th today. It’s just a titch early, ya think? Maybe corporate America should let us moms get the school year underway, before they hide the glue sticks under festive wrapping paper and snow globes.

This brings me to the perfect thing to buy right now: a YA space story about live turkeys escaping from a cargo hold, set free by a bunch of drunks. Karina Fabian’s hilarious book, Calling on a Bad Day: A Rescue Sisters Story will absolutely need to be read after Thanksgiving dinner. Out loud. Slowly.

The pilot of the Lucky Charms, one Rae Marie Martingale, is a feisty young woman who specializes in short haul cargo runs. When her company asks her to take a

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