3.31.2011

just in case you're keeping track

Here's a list of all the books i've read so far this year, in no particular order:

A Visit from the Goon Squad


The Swimming Pool

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

How Did You Get This Number

The Year of Eating Dangerously

Gear For Your Kitchen

One Day

Hedge Fund Wives

The Cookbook Collector

Lit

The Help

Not Buying It

The Girl Who Played Go

The Improvisational Cook

Brilliant Food Tips and Cooking Tricks

How to Pick a Peach
 
           plus . . .
 
In Progress:
The Invisible Circus
Good Omens
 
           and . . .
 
Checked out but not yet started:
Keep the Change                                           5 days
Pro Nail Care                                              14 days
A Million Little Pieces                                  19 days
It All Changed In An Instant                         19 days
The Spellman Files                                       19 days
The Kitchen Detective                                  renewals left
plus two books I just checked out yesterday
 
Why is it as soon as I have fewer than about 30 items out from the library I go crazy checking things out again?

almost time . .

For 30 days of biking.  Since my bike is currently at my parent's, that's going to make tomorrow difficult.  Good thing I have the evening to myself tomorrow?

3.30.2011

books update

Just finished The Girl Who Played Go.  So good, although it saddens me how stories set in the East often end with everyone dying.  Why do I continue to read them?

p.s.  as excited as I am at the possibility of seeing Lisa See in June, I'm really hoping that Dreams of Joy won't end up the same way.  We had enough of that with Shanghai Girls.

Books so far this year: 17?

3.29.2011

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”


Arnold H. Glasgow



3.28.2011

Headline today: Julia Stiles gets old.


People, she’s only 30!  How do we expect to accomplish anything if we’re not allowed to age?