Thursday, February 18, 2010

Attention Deficit Reader

Hello everyone, so happy to see your posts and I plan to respond to them today if I can find the time. It turns out that I have some sort of attention deficiency when it comes to reading. As you know I started "I Know This Much is True" and I love this book, but suddenly this year's book awards were announced so I read "When You Reach Me" (Newbery winner) and "Going Bovine" (Printz award winner) and "The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks" (Isinglass nominee). Then I needed to read "Loose Girl; a memoir of promiscuity" in time for my book group meeting in February. Now where am I? I started "Nefertiti" for March book group, picked up "Reliable Wife" for upcoming plane flight, and then yesterday I received an Advanced Readers Copy of a book written by my friend Angie Frazier. Angie lives here in NH and we met starting with a book group about 9 years ago. Since then we did Arbonne together and she quit her job at Yankee Publishing and stayed home with her daughters and began writing. I have never received an Advanced Copy and I'm thrilled and immediately started that book, "Everlasting". It was hard to set it down to blog here, but I will pick it back up and finish it soon.Here is my plan for reading the rest of this month: Everlasting, Nefertiti, Reliable Wife, I Know This Much is True and the audiobook "Red Glass". Who knows what will pop up to change all of this? We leave Sunday for Cancun and I'm hoping for some great beach time to read.

Attention Deficit Book Clubber

Hello everyone, so happy to see your posts and I plan to respond to them today if I can find the time. It turns out that I have some sort of attention deficiency when it comes to reading. As you know I started "I Know This Much is True" and I love this book, but suddenly this year's book awards were announced so I read "When You Reach Me" (Newbery winner) and "Going Bovine" (Printz award winner) and "The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks" (Isinglass nominee). Then I needed to read "Loose Girl; a memoir of promiscuity" in time for my book group meeting in February.

Now where am I? I started "Nefertiti" for March book group, picked up "Reliable Wife" for upcoming plane flight, and then yesterday I received an Advanced Readers Copy of a book written by my friend Angie Frazier. Angie lives here in NH and we met starting with a book group about 9 years ago. Since then we did Arbonne together and she quit her job at Yankee Publishing and stayed home with her daughters and began writing. I have never received an Advanced Copy and I'm thrilled and immediately started that book, "Everlasting". It was hard to set it down to blog here, but I will pick it back up and finish it soon.

Here is my plan for reading the rest of this month: Everlasting, Nefertiti, Reliable Wife, I Know This Much is True and the audiobook "Red Glass". Who knows what will pop up to change all of this? We leave Sunday for Cancun and I'm hoping for some great beach time to read.