Does this give you any idea just how busy I was the last two weeks while I was away? In addition to only posting ONCE here (though I did try to keep caught up on the blog-reading), I am STILL READING THE SAME BOOK that I started the day before I left. TWO WEEKS AGO.
Seriously. Two weeks and I am not done with a paperback. That’s insane. There goes my plan for beating my books-read-in-a-year record.
On the bright side, I only have about 6 pages left and I have the biggest, gigandimundo pile of NEW BOOKS to read that I’m practically slavering.
Slavering is so messy.
Want to see the list of books I bought? This is the list. It does not include the 2 books we bought for Karin (TWICE. MOM! You bought them TWICE. AND…you packed them TWICE. Hrm). It also does not include the 7 or so books we bought for Martin. (Karin got other stuff, so don’t think she got gypped)
Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows (hi lurker!)
Belle by Cameron Dokey
The Myth of You & Me by Leah Stewart
Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
332 Magazine Covers by Norman Rockwell
Acts of Light by Emily Dickinson
The Mysterious Benedict Society & the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring
Cherry by Mary Karr
The Sand Castle by Rita Mae Brown
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch
See? SLAVERING!
I have also been up for approximately 3 days straight, despite dozing for 4 hours on the plane and am actually only moderately sleepy. I hope that means that I will sleep all night and not wake up at 4 a.m. Haha! My optimism! It is to laugh. Much like my optimistic plan to finish Mark Twain’s Autobiography on the way TO Boston and leave him behind for some other lucky reader.
I have so much to write down for remembrances. But I am glad to be back. Also, I miss my mom. Already.
Brownie Cake Belated Birthday Wishes to lady_findel, orangepoppy and studio_zoe and a Balloon Bouquet of Bright Ones for e11en today!