By the time this post is published, we will all be back home, but right this moment, as I type this up, we are enjoying our last day at Daufuskie, a secluded island near Hilton Head, SC and Savannah, GA. We were lucky to score a cottage (without having to break the bank) with front-row access to the beach, something that has always been on my bucket list and that I was thrilled to cross off. This week has been very refreshing and just what I needed - a getaway, a break from it all, a retreat with family with no thoughts of work, to-do lists, and chores getting in the way. The island sure runs on its own time. The streetlights aren't turned ON at night to avoid attracting turtles too far from their ideal nesting place. There's the alligator crossing time at night when they go from pond to pond visiting friends (and hence tourists are advised to stay home when it's dark). There are very few cars - instead the preferred mode of transportation is via golf carts, which can go o
This meme is hosted by Marcia @ The Printed Page. It is the gathering
place for readers to share the books
that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t
count, eBooks & audio books do).After a busy week for my mailbox, I think it was relieved that it didn't have to stuff itself this week. How sad, because I don't think I would have minded!
Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black and White by Brooke Newman arrived from the Read it Forward program. (About a friendship between a brilliant mathematician and an uneducated, illiterate African American maid)
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.Usually I would go into the library with a list of books I want to check out, and grab them off the shelves before exiting. That's mainly because I wait till the last minute to go to the library, and then I just have to get home soon. This week though, I spent some time looking through the shelves, even though I didn't take any books other than what I went in there for. I have a feeling I'll be doing that this week as well!
- Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman: I already finished this book two days back and still can't stop gushing about it! It's one of the best YA books I've read in a long time.
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford: I had initially planned to read this book this weekend, but a bunch of weekend chores kept me from it.
Did you sign-up for the Glorious giveaway?
Comments
All three of the books you have listed this week have me intrigued!
Susan
sweb4us@aol.com
http://crazycatladyslibrary.blogspot.com/
I've been wanting to read the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
Enjoy!
My MM:
http://laurelrainsnowcreations.blogspot.com/2010/05/mailbox-monday_09.html
http://bookventuresbookclub.blogspot.com/2010/05/mailbox-monday_10.html