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!
Right now, I am going through two books. I started Arcadia a couple of days ago, and since then I have come across the book a few times already in other blogs. They have been mostly raving, so I'm eager to see where this goes for me. Though, I should admit that I started it at the wrong time - when I was going to sleep, and Arcadia isn't a book you should start at such times unless you do want to be put to sleep.
Which pages were turned...
I'm also reading Catherine Ryan Hyde's When I Found You. I've been eager to read this one for a while, because the synopsis about an abandoned baby and the man who found the baby in the woods sounded interesting. Short Story of the week - In the Bed Department (click for my review) by Anne Enright.Since the last update, these are the books I read:
Dance Lessons by Áine Greaney Cross Currents by John Shors I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu Divergent by Veronica Roth My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf...And other news
Short Fiction: A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Short Fiction: In the South by Salman Rushdie Review: First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty Review: The Dispatcher by Ryan David Jahn Post hunger games mania
Indie Lit Awards winners A long month of books and TV
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My favorite read this week was the audio version of Shutter Island. Please come see what else I'm reading.
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Sorry I am a bit late stopping by this week, I've been swamped! I hope you have been enjoying Arcadia
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