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Happy Ascension Day! Happy Memorial Day! Happy Africa Day! No matter what you are celebrating this weekend (or not), have fun and stay safe!

The Boy Turned TwoThe little guy turned two this week. He sort of understood that it was a special day and that he was the star of the show. He took a lot of pleasure in all the birthday songs that his family sang to him - he also added some of his own tunes to the mix. Honestly, some days it feels so hard to believe that he is not a baby anymore. With my daughter, I felt the passing of each day and her birthdays appeared to be following the Martian calendar - they felt very far apart. But this guy has blazed through the past two years, I almost feel that I've missed months in between. I'm worried that if I pinch myself and blink twice, I may catch him packing for college. Yikes! 
Happy birthday, little guy! May you continue to have fun breaking apart things - whether that's your take-apart truck or your sister's carefully built Leg…
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Library Loot - Jan 17, 2010

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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva @ A Striped Armchair and Marg @ Reading Adventures that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!

So after a month, I finally headed to the library, to pick a bunch of books for the rest of this month. Here's what I grabbed:




  1. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi. I devoured this book within a half hour of checking it out from the library.
  2. Daddy Long-legs by Jean Webster. This book was not on my reading plan for this month or year. But Aarti @ BOOKLUST and Nymeth @ things mean a lot posted raving reviews about this book that I had to pick it up.
  3. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. I know, I must be the last blogger to read this.
  4. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. I haven't heard many very good review of this book, and much as I am curious about reading this, I hope I won't be disappointed. It's a huge tome!
  5. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore. My first by this author.
  6. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. This is the second time I am picking this book to read. The first time I started reading it, I wasn't much impressed by the first couple of pages. I want to give this one more try to see if the sentiment persists.
What do you think of any of these books?

Check out what others looted this week here!
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Christine said…
Hi Aths!
Thanks for visiting my blog and checking out my library loot. I just finished BEAUTIFUL CREATURES yesterday and I loved it! I hope you enjoy it as well when you get to it.

You're not the last blogger to read BITTEN. I haven't read that series yet... and in fact have BITTEN on my TBR pile! OOps!

I also see we're in quite a few book challenges together. Good luck! :)
January 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Susan said…
I read Bitten last year, and fell in love with Armstrong's "Women of the Otherworld" series. I can't wait to see what you think of it:)

As far as Her Fearful Symmetry is concerned, I'm another blogger with a bad review :( I had heard that if you enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife (as I did,) then you would be disappointed with HFS. I was really hoping for more...
January 17, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Athira said…
Christine, thanks for stopping by! Glad to hear that you loved Beautiful Creatures! I'm happy I'm not the only one who hasn't read Bitten! That makes two of us. LOL!

Susan, I hope to fall in love with the series too! And yeah, I tremendously enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife, so I have really put a lot of expectations on this book. :(
January 17, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Eva said…
I want to read Daddy Longlegs thanks to Ana and Aarti too! :)

I wish Embroideries had been longer-it was so interesting!
January 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Kristen said…
The Stupidest Angel was my first Christopher Moore and I immediately zipped out to buy everything else the man has written. He's brilliantly hilarious. TSA has characters from many of his other books in it but it does work if you haven't read them as well. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
January 18, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Anonymous said…
Daddy-Long-Legs was one of my favourite books growing up! And I haven't read it in ages. Must see if I can get a copy. Hope you love it as much as I did all those years ago!
January 18, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Athira said…
Kristen, glad that you liked "The Stupidest Angel"! That book was a hit-or-miss with many, so I sure hope to enjoy it. I haven't read any of his other books, so I hope I can still enjoy it without that previous knowledge of the characters.

olduvai, I hope you get a copy of Daddy Long-Legs!
January 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM
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