Last week went much better than I dared hope it would be. I managed to catch some parts of the Presidential Inauguration and the evening program, and just the realization that the administration is really, truly, definitively changing has just sunk in, I think. I haven't spent more than about 5 minutes each day on the news (didn't feel the need to) and I hope to keep it that way for as long as possible. Life Yep, another busy work week. I know I hoped for a lighter work week, but who am I kidding. Work has been a different kind of busy each week this whole month and it will be nothing different this coming week. I just hope to figure out how to get my lunch hour freed up and use it to recharge. Not much happened in life this week - kids are loving being back at school, and I am loving my uninterrupted time, something that was only a luxury for much of last year. Reading Even if life was busy this week, I did read quite a bit. I'm slowly reading So You Want To Talk About Ra
This is a weekly event initially hosted by J. Kaye at J. Kaye's Book Blog, now by Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books, to celebrate what you are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.
Books completed
Zilch! And it's so funny because I joined a readathon just to finish my current reads. I mostly got bogged with The Passage, because I couldn't put it down. Then I got house-cleaning (you won't believe how messy I had been, and that always interferes with my concentration). Then my best friend, Piyush, came for the weekend, and we watched two movies - Wall Street (big nod for that!) and Eat, Pray, Love (ugh, I yawned through this movie). I spent most of second half of Sunday cleaning up my reader, so I feel much better about this week because I did take care of everything that had been keeping me from reading. Big Phew for that!
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Books on my nightstand
My stack for this week looks same as last week, except for the page count of two of them.
The Passage by Justin Cronin:
Wow, I'm halfway into it! That makes me feel totally awesome! I do have a lot on my head right now about this book, and did I say that the six-year old is creepy? That's creeeeeepy! I am putting this book down this week, because I really want to read something else. So, let's see how that goes, shall we?
Stealing Lumby by Gail Fraser:
I'm having a little more trouble than usual getting into this book. It's funny and delightful, but I think it was not the book I should have read now. I just have a few pages to go, so I'm going ahead and completing it.
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert:
I had hoped to start this last week, oh well. It's a new week, and hopefully I'm starting this one tomorrow.
Comments
have a great week!
If you slept through the Eat, Pray, Love movie, I'm thinking the book will be even more of a snooze.
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I also love Sue Monk Kidd's books. Her memoir Dance of the Dissident Daughter is one of my favorites.
I think The Passage looks very good.
Here's my list for the week:
http://debsbookbag.blogspot.com/2010/09/simply-marvelous-monday-40.html