Month-end odds & ends

• How is it the end of August already?? 
• Little Great-Nephew is sick -- with hand, foot & mouth disease.  :(   He's been at home with his mom all week to date, so we did not get to see him as usual this morning.  :(  BIL missed him so much he played hooky from work for a few hours yesterday morning -- he drove all the way up to Older Nephew's house (about an hour away, one way!) to bring LGN a toy, and then drove all the way back again and went to work!  
• We bought our tickets to head west to see my family in early/mid-October for (Canadian)   Thanksgiving. Yay!! (Crossing all crossables that we don't run into any issues...!) 
• Last fall, I read and reviewed a great dystopian novel (with a bit of a childless angle to it!) called "Widowland" by C.J. Carey for the Gateway Women NoMo book club. It wasn't yet available here in North America, so I ordered a hardcover copy from the UK, via Amazon (US).  
• "Widowland" was finally released here in North America earlier this month (paperback, different publisher & cover). I was back in our local bookstore for the first time in a while recently, saw the paperback on the shelves and picked it up to flip through. 
• Imagine my complete & utter surprise to see that it contains an entirely different ending!! -- a 6-plus-page epilogue coming after the final chapter (Chapter 32, which is where my hardcover from the UK ends)(as well as a reading group guide and a Q&A with the author)!! (I wound up buying the paperback just so I could compare the two books & read the new-to-me ending!) 
• I've noticed a couple of other small changes between the two editions, just in the few passages I've looked at, and wondering just how extensive they are throughout the book?? 
• Personally, I thought the book did end a bit abruptly -- but I kind of liked the ambiguity!    
• There's a sequel coming out in October! -- "Queen High." :)