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Bad Choices

While looking for the right size paperback book to carry on my travels I picked up 5 at the 5 for $1.00 store. I read the first two and am trying to read the last three. Till Morning Comes by Han Suyin (author of A Many Splendored Thing) is very tedious and takes place in late 1930s China. After 62 pages I decided to try the next one The Vertical Smile by Richard Condon (author of the Manchurian Candidate). Oh, my God. I challenge any of you to read more that the 43 pages I was able to do. If I could decipher who the people are and what they're doing I still don't think I could muster the energy to give a crap. That's 40 cents shot that I could have invested in better band aids.

Persuasion

Last weekend, there was nothing on tv, so I went to my bookshelf and tried to find something to read. I was thinking about Jane Austin, but I've read all her stuff and I was looking for something new. But nothing was jumping out at me so I picked up a collection of Jane Austin and found Persuasion. I couldn't remember what it was about, so I started reading. I didn't remember reading it at all. I know that I've read them all, because I particularly remember being so disappointed that there weren't anymore. I'm wondering if I've gotten to the age where my memory is a whole lot shadier, so that I can read all my old standbys over again as new. BTW Persuasion was a great book, though I did go back and forth being thrilled with the language and intricate paragraphs and being bothered by how tedious one sentence could be to get through when I wanted to know what happened next, right now. It's hard to read, but so worth it in the end. Not quite as good as Pride and Prejudice, but close.

Closing Out the Year

Well I read 137 books in 2004. Just shows what you can do without a pesky job to get in the way. Based on the number of books by each author Robert Parker (Spenser novels) is way ahead with 35 books. But since I had never read anything by him before I had a lot to catch up on and they are easy reads. Another author I found this year and read 7 of his books (the only 7 my library has) is Richard North Patterson. He writes legal stuff but not in the same sense that Grisham writes legal thrillers, Patterson's books deal more with the politics of laws. My favorite and one I would highly recommend is Protect and Defend. I managed to get in four Danielle Steele, and three Jennifer Crusie.

I have read three so far this year and am currently reading Jon Stewart's America as my living room book. I don't usually have two books going but America is in the style of a text book and is way too cumbersome to read in bed. Not to mention that it is extremely funny and I quite often laugh out loud and would disturb Gordon's sleep if I were to read it in bed.

Ah well, so many books, so much time!

Can't read

For some reason I am having trouble getting into any book lately. There have been many days in the last few weeks that I never even pick up a book. Of the last three that I started, one was just too stupid and the other two I had already read. I have started Joy in the Morning now by Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) and although it is not grabbing me, at least it isn't stupid. I hate that that's the best thing I can say about a book.

Rita brought over a few yesterday. One of which she earmarked for Megan called Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery. That was a TV show on CBC that I used to watch and I liked so I'm going to read that one next (before I give it to Megan).

tres libras

1 week, 3 books! That's alot for someone that hasnt read an actual novel in a couple of months. Jennifer Weiner is wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 books. And highly recommend them to everyone.

Good in Bed

Is just that... a good bedtime (or in my case mostly, plane ride) read. I started it on the plane Friday and finished Saturday evening in bed. Today, I went and purchased In Her Shoes which is her second book and will read Little Earthquakes next.

It's Okay - Go Ahead And Exhale

Today’s to-do list contained several errands to take care of. Planning my trip with as few left turns as possible it consisted of: library, bank, hair place, store. I am in the middle of a Jennifer Cuisie and have a Parker and an unknown left to read. This makes me nervous as I like to make sure at all times I will have something to read. So I take my stack of read books and head to the library. There are absolutely no cars parked at the library and my heart starts pounding. The library is under construction and was supposed to be closed for a few days last week. Sure enough I get to the door and there is a sign dated today that says “Library still closed due to construction in public areas” OMG. I have the interview tomorrow, hopefully it will be open on Saturday. I drop off my read books and head to complete my errands. As I am getting my hair cut I start to panic, what if the library is not open on Saturday, I’m going to be gone Monday through Wednesday next week and then it’s the holiday and they will be closed for the whole weekend. That’s almost two weeks, there’s no way even if the unknown is a good book that what I have left will last two weeks. Maybe I should just pick up a book at K-Mart. But I hate buying books, I really can’t afford to buy a book. But what if I have nothing to read. I have to have something to read. I’ll look at Mommy’s tomorrow she’ll have something. Oh yeah, she has that Good in Bed book. Yeah, but Adrienne wanted that, what if she’s reading it when I need a book. I have to have a book. I make it through the hair cut and don’t buy a book at K-mart. When I get home there’s a message on the machine, “This is Marcia from the library we have three books in for you, we’re not open to the public today but if you come by and knock on the new front window I can check them out for you through the window.” It’s okay to breathe again.

Leaky leak

It's easy to say "its not my problem" but that stupid leak is starting to make me lose sleep. Those slugs at the maintenance department couldn't even send one guy for one minute to shut off the valve under the sink. I am willing to go without water in my bathroom sink for the sake of their leak and they won't even do that.

I did manage (last Friday) to find the place where the water hits the floor and I put a frying pan under there. The pan got full and overflowing by morning and then again when I went to bed. I have to use a cup to take water out of the pan until it gets to a place where I can lift it to dump it into the sink. For a couple of days I put a cookie sheet under the pan to catch the overflow but now my best cookie sheet is getting all rusty so the heck with that.

Not counting today, only 3 more days before I get to go pick up Adrienne. Gretchen, we would be honored and excited if you would come to the party saturday night. Steph called and asked if it would be allright if Dana and Jeff came because they would like to see Adrienne. Kelly hasn't answered one way or the other yet.

Robert B. Parker

While Laurie was cleaning the living room (we have decided that she would rather be called Laurie) I took my book upstairs to get out of her way. When she was done and I came back down, I had forgotten to bring my book down, so I picked up another one I had down here called Perish Twice by Robert B. Parker. I think I love him. So easy to read. Kept me interested and I could finish the book without staying up all night. I didn't know it until I looked at the list of 38 books he had written but he is the one that wrote the Spencer books. I will have to start looking for him at the 25 cent used book stores.

Jesus and pork chops

I have started his book this weekend. I started it while waiting for Adams team mates to arrive because as usual we were ungodly early for his game. So I'm reading it to Adam and he is laughing hysterically. He decides he wants to read it and take it to school for his book to read this month. That's when I had to explain that I was reading and censoring at the same time and that George Carlin is not appropriate school reading.

Time to read

With no TV and no computer, reading was the only thing lift. I finished Good in Bed. Then I picked up a James Patterson "3rd Degree". Very quick reading. I finished it in about 5 hours. After that I got about three quarters through "The Pilots Wife" by Anita Shreve. Really good.

Catching Up Again

Okay, I haven't had as much time to read but I have managed to read a few good ones in the last month. Along with a couple of Spenser novels I read Trace by Patricia Cromwell it is the latest in the Kay Scapetta series, always good but not my favorite. White Hot by Sandra Brown very good, very easy read, very Nora Roberts. The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber very cute story of three very different women who sign up for a knitting class. And three quick romance novels Faking It by Jennifer Crusie, Babyville by Jane Green, and P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern. Bet Me was the first Jennifer Crusie I read and I am now catching up on hers. I'm looking forward to Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich, Echoes by Danielle Steele, London Bridges by James Patterson, and Hour Game by David Balducci all coming out in November.

When I read Safe Harbor by Danielle I was very disappointed in some of the lapses in the story. For instance at one point the daughter tells the 'boyfriend' that Mom is working at nights, and then 20 pages later he is terribly upset at finding out that she is working at night. There were a few of those types of things in there that I found very distracting, as I had to keep going back and rereading the original passage to make sure I was right.

Costco

They have got the greatest selection of books! I bought George Carlin's "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork CHops". I son't know when I will have time to read it tho, I have a stack of magazine next to my bed to catch up on.

Finished Danielle Steele

I forced myself to turn out the light last night and saved the end of Safe Harbour for lunch today. It was pretty good, although it felt like a not very good Lifetime movie waiting to happen. Its the Zone (a diet book) next for me.

Sushi

I just finished Sushi for Beginners. Am I bringing it to Michigan?

Little Earthquakes

Erika gave me Little Earthquakes when I got there on Friday and I finished it before I went to sleep last night. I brought it home anyways so the Rita and Gretchen could read it before Adrienne takes it home with her next month. It was the easiest, best read I've had in a long time. She also gave me Good in Bed so I have something to read this week.

There's a Danielle Steele that I haven't read

I couldn't believe it--I didn't want to spend any money, but there was a Danielle Steele that I hadn't read--"Safe Harbor" (at least I hope I haven't read it, because now I own it.) I'm going to the library on Monday. I'm going to try to make myself walk there a couple times a week--Jackson likes it.

Curious Incident

You guys go so fast. I am almost done with Little Earthquakes, but only because I sneak a page or two in whenever I possibly can (like stuck at a train, eating my lunch, etc.) I may not have liked this book ten years ago, because it is all about three women who just had babies, but it is absolutely perfect right now and I am loving it.

I also just started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime on tape (since that is the only version my library had). Lyle, Jackson, and I are driving down to Bloomington next week so I will be able to get through it then. It is OK, but a little disconcerting. It is written in the first person in the voice of an autistic kid, but it is very articulate; so there seems to be a disconnect that is distracting to me. It might be better if I were reading a hard copy, but I'll never know.

Tourist Style Digging for Gold

I finished Beach Girls--it was very good. I think I recognize a couple of the side characters from another book, so I'm going to remember this author. Now I'm going to read a couple of Nora Roberts re-published books. I'm not sure if I've read them already, so I'm going to give them another read. Years ago when I'd take the kids to the library, I would search through the paperbacks which had no order in the stacks and every once in a while I'd find a Nora Roberts that I hadn't read. It was like finding gold. Now she's re-publishing all her old books as collections--making is super easy to find the gold.