Books I bought today:
The Baker's Apprentice - Judith Ryan Hendricks. I read Bread Alone because I picked it up off a shelf of a vacation rental a couple years ago. I really enjoyed it. It was comfort reading - full of delicious food and you knew it was going to end happily. I didn't know there was a sequel till I stumbled over it today at the bookstore, where I'd gone with Primo to buy the new 39 Clues book, and for Seg, yet another complete sticker book of something Star Wars. Seg offered to give me his saved up money for part of his book, but considering he helped me sort and put away 6 baskets of laundry this morning, quite cheerfully, I got it for him. I like to do little things like that for my Seg; he is such a kind and generous soul himself.
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel. Can't wait to start this one.
I came home with a hankering to finally read Let the Great World Spin, which I bought ages ago, so dug it up and found my copy of Master and Commander in the process, so both are now sitting on my nightstand.
And I am moving through my pile of Persephone Press books; it's the weather, I crave pleasant domestic novels.
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Just finished Sara Gruen's The Ape House. While I read it straight through in two nights, I won't say it was an especially great book. There are characters I liked, a few I didn't get At. All., and I don't really care about bonobos. As Katya said, "[It's] not that I want anything to happen to them, [I'm] not interested in reading about them." Precisely. But despite all this equivocation, I am glad I read it. I scored it at the library on the New Books display, so that was a bonus, too.
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Why can I have a book in my house for months or sometimes even years before I am hit with the burning desire to read it RIGHT NOW? See above, Let the Great World Spin. I like to go bookshopping on my own shelves. The price is right.
3 comments:
Well you know I loved wolf hall!
Am deep in "freedom" by frantzen and am finding it compelling...
Dude, I do that, too. Currently reading Memoirs of a Geisha, which I've owned FOREVER. I've only bought FOUR fiction books so far in 2010 in an attempt to whittle down the stack on my nightstand, but I swear it's getting taller anyway. No idea how that happens.
You want to read it when you're in the mood. Sometimes the right mood takes a while, but you don't want to skip a book you know you'll find interesting.
I am just now reading The Corrections. I do that a lot too--buy someone's book but not read it till the next one comes out.
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