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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Slavering is so messy.<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
Fortune and Fate<\/b> by Sharon Shinn
\nThe Magic Half<\/b> by Annie Barrows (hi lurker!)
\nBelle<\/b> by Cameron Dokey
\nThe Myth of You & Me<\/b> by Leah Stewart
\nLord John and the Hand of Devils<\/b> by Diana Gabaldon
\nKing Hereafter<\/b> by Dorothy Dunnett
\nThe Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/b> by Muriel Barbery
\nDreamers of the Day<\/b> by Mary Doria Russell
\n332 Magazine Covers<\/b> by Norman Rockwell
\nActs of Light<\/b> by Emily Dickinson
\nThe Mysterious Benedict Society & the Perilous Journey<\/b> by Trenton Lee Stewart
\nThe Invention of Everything Else<\/b> by Samantha Hunt
\nThe Book of Bright Ideas<\/b> by Sandra Kring
\nCherry<\/b> by Mary Karr
\nThe Sand Castle<\/b> by Rita Mae Brown
\nPeople of the Book<\/b> by Geraldine Brooks
\nTime of My Life<\/b> by Allison Winn Scotch<\/p>\n
See? SLAVERING!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I have so much to write down for remembrances. But I am glad to be back. Also, I miss my mom. Already.<\/p>\n
Brownie Cake Belated Birthday Wishes to lady_findel<\/a>, orangepoppy<\/a> and studio_zoe<\/a> and a Balloon Bouquet of Bright Ones for e11en<\/a> today!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bibliophilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}