Apr
A Heaven Lined With Books
I think I’ve died and gone to Heaven. Truly.
For the past few days, in between post-deadline cleaning and way too many pre-launch tasks, I’ve been reading.
Reading. Can you believe it?
It’s been entirely too long since I’ve been able to pick up a real book. And truly, it’s been amazing… I’ve read while waiting for my daughter to get off the school bus, I’ve read while sitting outside (in an actual lounge chair, no less), and I’ve read while doing absolutely nothing.
I chose MAGNOLIA WEDNESDAYS by Wendy Wax as my inaugural read because I love this author. I stumbled across her book, ACCIDENTAL BESTSELLER, early in 2009 and adored ever word of it…prompting me to call a number of friends and beg them to track it down and give it a whirl for themselves.
A year later, she’s back with another wonderful read in Magnolia Wednesdays. And, once again, I’m thoroughly enjoying Wendy’s descriptive (and fun!) prose and loving every moment of my favorite self-indulgence of all time (yes, reading comes in above chocolate on my list of personal favorites).
I’m hoping to talk more specifics about the book next week (after I’ve finished reading it–boo hoo), but, in the meantime, tell me something good you’ve read in the past week or two.
~Elizabeth
April 27th, 2010 at 7:49 am
I just finished “Saving CeeCee Honeycutt” by Beth Hoffman and I highly recommend this book. Just by reading the first chapter and I knew that this book will be a keeper and when I read the last sentence, my tissue box was well used.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Really have to get the Magnolia Wednesdays… I lent my Accidental Bestseller to a friend here at work and she’s hooked.
I read Colleen Gleason’s The Rest Fall Away(?) on my trip. It’s a vampire hunter set in Victorian England. Very entertaining. And then read several short stories from the 2008 Best American Short Story Collection. One was this story about a girl who’s been promised to a very older man. The entire society is based on women being given away at a very young age. And then one was about how a town found faith in silence, then in noise. Then the ending came around to the bursts of silence and noise being a morse code message to the town. Which they totally missed due to the focus on the forest and not the tree.
Literary…. who gets it. (Grin…)
April 27th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Well, I haven’t read it yet but a friend just gave me a book when I went to visit her last week, and I am anxious to read it because it is a little different than my typical read (mysteries). It’s called The House of Versace, and it turns out that the author, Deborah Ball, was my friends college roommate! So when we were hanging out in Barnes & Noble she bought it for me
and I am really looking forward to it—I will update you when I read it!
April 28th, 2010 at 1:01 am
I’ve read nothing BUT good stuff the past few weeks. I don’t know, but I strongly suspect that the publishers decided April was a great month for new releases because they thought everyone would be getting tax refunds back or something. I read Holly Blues by Susan Wittig Albert, Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown, Changes by Jim Butcher, and that’s just the beginning. Next up is probably A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters and Moonspinners by Sally Goldenbaum.
April 28th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Shel, I have it on good authority that May, too, will be a good month.
April 28th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
That authority you speak of already has a list on my blog, my facebook, and it’s being circulated among a close group of friends that read the same things I do… LOL!!