Books Update

I feel like I can't, or don't, or won't, or don't have the time to read as much, which sucks. I have delusions that I might have the day to lounge by a sunny window reading a classic like Anna Karenina (which I've started a dozen times the past 5 years) or just plain reading something enjoyable. Seems I have neither the time, nor can I find something engrossing like the days of Sweet Valley High and Babysitters Club.

I did read:

Book #8 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - which I finished in 3 days, over the summer. This book was much better than the previous, a much less whinier Harry, good solid plot line - I was hooked.

Book #9 - The Mermaid Chair - which I did not like at all, but I had started the book, so it was a sympathy finish. I finished it on the Vegas trip. It was painful, maybe because it was about an older woman going through a mid-life crisis, maybe it was because the book's plot felt so obviously contrived - I hate when books do that. Sue Monk Kidd's other book Secret Life of Bees was sooooo much better. I like how one Amazon reviewer puts it "Loved Life of Bees, but this is Daniel Steel."

I think I need to have Jelly Belly's around the house more often.

We had a family baby shower yesterday. It was a lot of fun. Friends shower to occur at a later date. I'll write more about that later...let's just say the highlight was watching my Uncle F. crawling on his knees like a baby....whoa! Can't get that image out of my head.

And I'm getting a little tired of the Spam commenters...must be a way to remedy that nuisance.

Homage to the Jelly Belly: