Then I bought this, having waited impatiently for months for it to come out in the States:
But then last night, about to crawl into my toasty warm bed with a bag of almond M&Ms, what did I pick up off the shelf? This:
Which I am, sort of to my chagrin, enjoying immensely. I almost got rid of these Aunt Dimity books that had been my mom's (she had maybe 4 or 5 of them) but I couldn't bring myself to...now I am glad I didn't, because I NEVER would have picked this up at the library or bookstore...
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*CS Lewis
7 comments:
Least it wasn't Lace. Or LaceII. Both of which I selected from the shelves of a holiday house I stayed in. Shelves which also included Great Expectations.
OMG. How awesome is the pink bunny?
I desperately want to read The Children's Book, but I have such a backlog. I am also looking forward to the new Margaret Atwood.
The US cover of Her Fearful Symmetry is way nicer than the Oz one.
Heh. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like a piker for reading fluffy genre stuff when I've got a stack of critically acclaimed to-be-read literature on my shelf. (Not GUILTY, mind you. Just ... a piker.)
I say, read what you want, we're not in school anymore. Those books aren't going anywhere.
xo,
SL
OMG! Lace & Lace 2, I remember reading those in middle school and watching the made for tv movie that had the shocker of Phoebe Cates uttering 'which one of you three bitches is my mother?' My book backlog is shameful but I'll have to put the top two on the list.
I'm slowly working my way through The Children's Book but keep stopping to read something quicker and more crime-laden. I normally adore Byatt but am finding this too heavily descriptive. I am currently bogged down in a section describing marionette puppetry.
*sigh*
However, I am addicted to (and am racing through) the Steig Larssen books.
I just bought those two books too -- and the new Margaret Atwood but I'm reading The Brutal Telling instead. I've never read any of the Aunt Dimity books.
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