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 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.
What a week and weekend it has been! I managed to get a lot of posts out of the way this week, and spent the weekend clearing off a lot of items from my don't-you-dare-procrastinate to-do list. I did manage to cross out some items, but there's still a long way. When will the day come that I won't have a single item on my list?
Books completed in the last week
Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro: What an innovative way to tell a story - through pictures and a narrator who makes us feel that we are trying to decipher this puzzle, and not just reading about someone else putting the pieces together. New Feature! Ash and I just started a new eco-friendly feature, Leif Reads! Don't forget to check it out! We plan to read one book each month for this feature and talk about it once a week. Also, don't forget to check our first posts that went up on Friday - here and here.
Reviews up!
Books on my nightstand
Well, I'm officially clearing out my nightstand today, because my family's going to stay with me for 3 months, and I want to spare them any anxieties thanks to the tons of books lying around. I can't help what the mailman brings in or what I carry in from the library, but my nightstand and shelves will just have to get pruned up a bit. (At least my dad loves to read, so maybe I can tempt him a bit by planting some good thrillers around.) I was supposed to clean up on Friday, but well, you know, some of the books were asking me to read them right away, and I didn't really feel like abandoning them on their shelves - not yet. You know how that goes?
Little Princes by Conor Grennan: It took me a while to start this, because I was expecting it to be a bit "deep", and after a few recent deep reads, I wanted something light. But on starting this book, it totally surprised me. The author's writing actually made me laugh - in a book that has been giving off "serious topic" vibes!
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown: I usually do not pick a book to read while it's going through a hyped-up phase. And this book has certainly been popping up all over lately. For some reason though, I haven't really let the hype get to me yet, so I'm looking forward to reading this book soon.
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My It's Monday post can be found here.
You have to add 13, rue Therese! It was entertaining!