I picked up two books tonight on my way home from work
to read this weekend:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Tattoos-Heart-Power-Boundless-Compassion/dp/1439153027#reader_1439153027"]Tattoos of the Heart[/ame] by Gregory Boyle

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-Life/dp/0385480016#reader_0385480016"]Bird by Bird [/ame] by Anne Lamott

Your Heart Belongs To Me by Dean Koontz

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.


It's fiction.

I'm struggling through it so far but I've heard it gets better. I hope so.

Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts

A lil fairy whispered in my ear the other day that I was going to receive the Sookie Stackhouse series as a belated birthday gift.

So I shall be reading them as soon as they arrive. Yep total mindless fluff. Vampire Fluff - heheheheheheh

just finished this one
 

Introduction to Italian Poetry - A Dual Language Book - by Luciano Rebay

(A promise to My late maternal Grandmother)

Gore Vidal - Snapshots in History's Glare - by Gore Vidal

(I have never been one to read autobiographies .. however, so far this is very good)

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline

(This one is a re-read - a heartwarming story about a china doll rabbit and his adventures around the globe)

I'm very excited to start reading:

'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making'

"Bibliophilic wyverns, enchanted woods, an evil Marquess, a magical talisman, dwarven customs agents, djinns, velocipedes--and that doesn't even take into account what's in the title of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. A fantastical tale that's somewhere between Lewis Carroll and Terry Pratchett, Cathrynne Valente's book follows twelve-year-old September, a girl from Omaha, Nebraska, who finds herself whisked away by a fast-talking gentleman called the Green Wind to the world of Fairyland where she has to retrieve a witch's spoon from the fickle Marquess. Still, Cathrynne Valente's imaginative cast of characters and spirited prose turn what could be a standard heroine-on-a-quest story into something on par with the best (and weirdest) classics. --Darryl Campbell"

From Dead to Worse -- Charlaine Harris, book 8 of the Sookie Stackhouse serie

Stranger than fixtione
 

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too. (f)

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
 

Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest

by Stieg Larsson

The Swedish movie can not be topped by anything done by Hollywood, and it goes without saying that the book is better than the movie.


[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Kicked-Hornets-Nest/dp/1906694176"]Amazon.com: Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest (9781906694173): Stieg Larsson: Books[/ame]

I wnoedr why it can do tihs? And why a solw rdeaer can raed it? Seplilng is oratreved.


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[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Sabriel-ebook/dp/B000FC13MM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1307148155&sr=8-2"]Sabriel by Garth Nix.[/ame]

I was at McKay the other evening and a young lady was telling her boyfriend that he haaaad to read it. I introduced myself and asked her why? What was so good about it? Sounded interesting enough, so I got it. Kinda interesting so far.

Had to get all the Feegle voices out of my head after Wee Free Men, before I picked up the next one in the series.

The bookstore just called to let me know this one is in. I think I will be able to pick it up tomorrow and start on it right away.

Hoping to get a Kindle for my birthday then I won't have to wait as long for books.

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The Sabriel series is REALLY good! REALLY REALLY.
Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorrsen - are the three titles.

like the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy (or more loosely the HP series) these are YA fiction that are based on a 'coming of age/rites of passage' format. BUT just likst HDM and HP when they are read by adults they have greater meaning and content.

I loved the Sabriel series because the series is lead by a very strong young female character.

Victorian America Transformations in Everyday Life 1876-1915 by Thomas J. Schlereth.

Just finished Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

This is an inspiring book for many runners. For this runner, it shed new light on the biomechanics of running and the bill of goods we've been sold as far as running shoes are concerned. Looking forward to shedding my running shoes for those Five Fingers now. The little sexist flourishes (and notable omissions!) irked me.

"The Blue Fairy Book" Andrew Lang

It is a collection of fairy tales. I have been on a fairy tale, folk tale tare lately. I can't get enough.

when the student is ready the teacher appears
 

This book came out in 2007

I am reading it starting today 2011


"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A year of Food Life"

by Barbara Kingsolver

one of my favorite authors

Greco

If they have it, get Jeri Smith-Ready's WVMP series. 3rd one just came out. Do NOT recommend reading out of order though.

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My friend loved it so much that she drove it over as soon as she was finished.