Well....I've been very good since the beginning of the year (yeah, I know it's only 12 days in!!), but I haven't bought ANY books!! Yes, that's right. Not a one. Of course, I didn't get any gift cards to use this year, and my wallet is suffering major strain from Christmas. But I did go to the library yesterday. And what did I walk out with, you might ask? Well, I had a bunch of requests for ILL, and they all came through in the last 2 days.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Cigar Roller by Pablo Medina
- The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- Palace Walk by Najib Mahfuz
- Turning Angels by Greg Iles
- Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
- Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Now, you are probably asking yourself the same thing I am. WHEN are you ever going to find the time to READ all of these books? There are some serious door stops here! Well the answer, my friends, is simple. I really have no idea!! It's like a sickness with me. The thought of running out of something to read leaves me with cold chills!! I can't even go to the library without bringing home a truckful of books. Will it ever end, this obsession with the Written Word???
I Certainly Hope Not!!!
Later!
6 comments:
There's some good reads there!!
The Tea Rose is good, but the sequel, The Winter Rose is better - not out in the US yet though!!
I want to read the Palace Walk books!
Hey Marg! Yeah...some great reads, but a couple of them are BIG! Well....I've got 5 or 6 weeks to read them! I MIGHT make it!
I always have WAY too many books to read, and I have to buy mine. I need a library. Me and my friend complain about the one here all the time. It never gets new books, everything is ILL. And, okay, could do that, but it is such a hassle to request everything. Then, there is the university, where I get books from time to time, but that's more of a reference library than anything else. It is why the other libraries suck, though.
I have Memoirs of Cleopatra somewhere. I started reading it but never finished. I don't know if I just wasn't into it or what. It's one of the ones I plan on getting back to someday.
LOL -- girl, you are so crazy! Everytime I go to the library I check out way more books than I can ever possibly read. It's just so hard to say No!
So where's West of Eden on the list? :-)
Paul Weiss
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