I like to read. I’m a reader. Other kids played sports, I read. I also love to make lists. It’s odd I know. So, I’ve been keeping this list of everything I’ve read for 20 years. What!? Twenty years. Wait, let me count again (1990-2010). Yep, my calculations are correct. That’s just nuts.
I’m sure I’ve missed one here and there and I really won’t put a book on my list that I didn’t complete. Maybe there is a support group for people me. They probably meet at the library.
Anyway, I just updated my list with two or three new things and I thought I’d mention the list.
A Handmade Life, by Molly Wizenberg is a cook book/memoir and I really enjoyed it. I don’t know that I’ve ever read any other cook book cover-to-cover, but this one was really enjoyable. I’ve even made two of her recipes so far: Burg’s Potato Salad (oh my goodness, to-die-for) and Ed Fretwell Soup (delicious). I’m really looking forward to trying her Roasted Eggplant Ratatouille (maybe next week). Mrs. Wizenberg is helping me eat my vegetables and love every bite. Oh yeah, she started off blogging. Her book is really good. I highly recommend it.
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon is a fantasy fiction and part of a series that I started earlier this year upon my husband’s recommendation. You see, in addition to lists and reading, I love serial novels. He said he knew a lot of people who said they really enjoyed this series. So, I picked up Outlander and was hooked. I will say, I felt this second in this series dragged a bit more than the first. Perhaps I just wasn’t in the mood to read about the Scots. But by the time I got to the end I was hooked to pick up the third. Oh, those cliffhangers. I like those too, except when I don’t have time to immediately start reading the next book. Gah!
So, that’s what I’ve been reading lately. I am considering reading World War Z next, but I’m not sure about a zombie novel right now. In fact, I picked up the Tao of Pooh again last night to avoid starting it. I’m feeling a bit more maternal and emotional, maybe even sentimental. So, my fellow readers, any recommendations? What are you reading?
By the way, the graphic in this post is a poster. I took a photograph of it at a friends house. I hope they don’t mind that I used it. It’s just too cute. The book monster in my soul felt a kinship when I saw that poster.
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Have you read the Hunger Games series yet? Or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson? Those are two series I love. I’m waiting for the third book in each to be released this summer.
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Julie, I tried to get the first book of the Hunger Game from the library. The wait list was very long. I’ve heard it is very good. So, I’ll see if I can find it again. I may just have to buy it. It sounds like it is very good. I’ve also considered the Larsson novel’s, many people have been raving about that series. Thanks for the recommendation!
Will you respect me less to know the last book I read (half way through, I have a habit of starting several books at once) was “How to Make Love like a Porn Star?” Then all that TMZ-Jenna-Tito-plastic-surgery-lips-wife-beating stunt went down and I’m over it.
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Jodie, I still have mad respect for you. We read about that Tito-Jenna thing here too (MMA fans). Craziness. So, how was it…the book?
I lean to bios and memoirs and hers in (ghost)written well. She employs that odd style of repros of old diary pages and such between chapters, and interview style chapters which I don’t care for.
OH! And I picked up an old Erma Bombeck paperback for a $1 at the used bookstore and something from Steve Martin (that Steve Martin) titled, “Pure Drivel” (humorist essays).
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It sounds fun. Bios…the only bio I’ve read in a while is a book called “Her Husband” about the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. It was very good. It really focused on how their relationship fostered the creativity in each other. Of course, it doesn’t end well. But there is a lot there. Very well done.