Who remembers holidaying with a hot pink Kodak-for-Fisher-Price camera?

Brooklyn-based photographer Mina Georgescu has turned her childhood hobby into a body of work that is truly magical.

Her Coney Island and Other Magical Places series conjures memories of eating candyfloss on a ferris wheel or building sandcastles under a steaming hot sun.

If only we could say the same for our weird and wonky holiday snaps.

www.minagraphy.com

Need a long weekend beach read? Herewith, our editors' favourite summer page turners.

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
If Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret was your pre-teen bible, pick up Blume's more mature novel, Summer Sisters. It follows two best friends from grade school to their 30s and blends adolescent whimsy and angst with some very grown up topics. (PS: Check out Judy Blume on Twitter). $10 at Amazon.ca
Maria Tallarico, Managing editor

Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton
Members of Team Jennifer will enjoy sinking their teeth into. But we’d never diss Angie—why mess with a gal with a knife collection? $16 at Amazon.ca
Marianne Wisenthal, Montreal editor

The Recessionista by Alexandra Lebenthal
"Too Big to Fail Goes to the Beach," is how New York Magazine's Jessica Pressler described Alexandra Lebenthal's hot summer debut novel, The Recessionistas. A fabulously juicy read. $19 at Amazon.ca
Athena Tsavliris, Toronto editor

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
From the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked is the author’s latest look at what happens when love, parenting and relationships get in the way of life. The story of a washed-up musician also deals with one of Hornby’s favourite subjects: music. $21 at Amazon.ca
Malwina Gudowska, Calgary editor

One Day by David Nicholls
Expressed in snapshots of the same day spanning twenty years, this tale of two opposites, Dex and Em, who connect just before graduation, go their separate ways, yet stay in touch, sucked us in right from the start (perhaps because it begins with the pair bantering and snogging). $13 at Amazon.ca
Joy Pecknold, Vancouver editor

Maybe it’s the heat but we’ve missed those MTV misfits.

While waiting for Jersey Shore to hit Miami revisit favorite moments from Season One ($13.99 on iTunes). Get fashion tips from J-Woww, see Snooki’s self-defense moves, and learn the fine art of creeping from The Situation. And if that isn’t enough to feed your fix, the Jersey Shore Soundtrack ($9.99 on iTunes) features singles by Enrique Iglesias, Ludacris and Pauly D himself.

Just don’t forget to switch over to Mad Men when your pals come calling or you’ll become a social grenade.

Jersey Shore Season 2 premieres July 29 (7 p.m. PDT/10 p.m. EDT) on MTV Canada, www.mtv.ca

Shoe racks, closet caddies and drawer dividers keep your wardrobe in order, but your bulging bookmark bar of fashion blogs is a hot mess.

Don’t distress: give your blog reading some love with Bloglovin’. The simple online reader stores all your favourite sites in one spot. You can create your own groups like “Parisian Street Style” or “Everyday Glam Girls” to segment your feed and request email notifications so the minute Garance Doré publishes a pic of Carine Roitfeld outside the couture shows you’ll know.

Styled and sorted.

www.bloglovin.com

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Take our quick-and-easy one-minute technology survey and be eligible to win an HTC Legend smartphone courtesy of Virgin Mobile.

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Cancelling cable for the summer saves us from reruns, but denies us those late-night guilty pleasures known as Legends of the Fall and Cruel Intentions.

Good thing GlobalTV.com is streaming those and other titles online all summer long. Free and with minimal commercials, there’s always seven films to choose from and they change over every two weeks.

Best part is, unlike cable, if you can’t wait till late to watch Can’t Hardly Wait (on this week’s roster), you don’t have to.

To watch, visit www.globaltv.com/movies

Your favourite band, one last night in the city and your crush—could one amazing gig convince you to stay?

Opening tomorrow, This Movie is Broken shows off all the things we love about Toronto in the summer. (Spot The Drake Hotel, Trinity-Bellwoods, the Harbourfront and more in the rock show romance.) Greg Calderone stars as Bruno, the smitten boy, and Georgina Reilly is Caroline, the longtime object of his affection. With music by Broken Social Scene and set against the backdrop of one of their most memorable outdoor concerts, the flick is our summer fix.

This Movie is Broken opens tomorrow in select Toronto cinemas, www.thismovieisbroken.com

Sure you were blue boxing before it was hip to be green, but there's always room for eco-innovation.

Enter SHFT, a media platform (co-founded by Entourage star Adrian Grenier) that has plenty of funky and thought-provoking environmental and cultural crossovers, like an interesting shop with non-toxic dog bowls, chairs made from an upcycled chain link fence, and this ultra sleek cardboard desk, along with blogs featuring super cool finds from the international art world and provocative videos.

But if we stare at hottie Adrian Grenier too long, we might unwittingly contribute to global warming.

Read our interview with co-found Lauren Gropper, a sustainability and design expert, today on our Editors' Diary.

The Hockey Moms. Napoleon and Josephine. Siamese Twins Elizabeth and Taylor.

These are just a few of the eclectic characters brought to life by Toronto’s hottest all-female sketch comedy troupe She Said What. Friends since university, these über-bright ladies write all their own material. Sometimes shocking, sometimes twisted, the result is an always hilarious, high-energy show.

Best of all? No men bashing and no period jokes. They promise.

She Said What perform at The Comedy Bar, June 5, 2010 at 9:30 p.m., tickets $12, 945 Bloor St. W., Toronto, 647-898-5324, www.comedybar.ca

“Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be…”

But just who was Carrie Bradshaw before her column, before Big and before she met her three best friends? In The Carrie Diaries, SATC fans finally find out. 

Readers join Carrie for her senior year at Castlebury High, where she grapples with crushes and cliques, family and fashion, swim team, suburbia and (of course) sex. As she begins to discover her writing voice, the young Bradshaw learns that even the hottest guy in town can’t compete with her big city dreams. 

She’s no Judy Blume, but Candace Bushnell is shockingly good at teen fiction. We would happily read the Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte Diaries too.

Okay, maybe just Samantha’s.

The Carrie Diaries, ($19.99) Type Books, 427 Spadina Rd., Toronto, 416-487-8973, http://typebooks.ca and Indigo.ca