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
Sheila @ Book Journey wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!
Which pages were turned...
I finished reading Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow, my second of the Indie Lit Awards reads. I am looking forward to talking about it, once the awards are announced. I'm also halfway through Lynn Sheene's The Last Time I Saw Paris and Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Right - that makes it three books going at a time - book polygamy's in full swing. The Guernsey Literary, which I'm reading at work is pretty entertaining, making me wonder why it took me so long to pick it. As part of my current goal to read more short stories, I read another one recently - A Moment of Wrong Thinking by Lawrence Block....And other news
Review: Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri (Short story) Review: The Silent Land by Graham Joyce Review: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Oh, and for Hunger Games' fans: My brother (and fellow fan) just shared with me this awesome map of the Panem courtesy io9 - looks like a good chunk of North America is in the water or bombed off - my town just about made it into District 12, barely.
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Enjoy your week!
My daughter's homework requires reading out loud to me. Come see what she and I read together. I also got some other great books finished on my own time.
Wishing you a great reading week
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
My Monday Memes post
http://mustreadfaster.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-are-you-reading-monday-5.html
Have a wonderful week!
Tasha @ A Trillian Books xxx