I Really Didn't Get It...But I Truly Get It Now...

I am a reader and I am a reader who knows books and authors and what is coming out next.  I follow tons of blogs, I subscribe to Bookmark Magazine and The Strand...I religiously read The New York Times Book Review and I just literally...get it...literally eat up all things books...I buy them, collect them, cherish them...I LOVE BOOKS...I love to read...mostly fiction...but good fiction and YA Fantasy?  even this is a new genre for me...never biographies or memoirs...never books about animals getting hurt...Black Beauty was not a book of my childhood.   Reading my evil unicorn book last week...Rampant by Diana Peterfreund...was a true test of my reading stealth...I almost put it down and I hate doing that...but I read it and it was really good.  All this leads up to The Hunger Games...I heard and read all of the buzz about this series.  I didn't get it.  Too...way too dystopian for me...I don't like books about destruction and poverty and hardships almost too unbearable to read.  My sister Paula read this book and did not love it.  My sister- in- law Betsy saw a friend reading it on her husband's Kindle and went on her own personal quest of every library in Denver in order to find it.  Her friend told her it was a must read...I told her she wouldn't like it...way too dystopian...but...who knew...

I have had The Hunger Games on my Kindle since August...I felt pressure to read it...no one's pressure but my own.  I started it today and now...one quarter of the way through...I get it...I am caught up in Katniss and Prim's story and Gale and the baker's husband and the fact that they are just so so hungry and just trying to live.  I just Kindled the next two books and it will be a non stop reading experience for me until the end...

This Is Pumpkin Time!!!

I love to quilt...mostly not huge quilts...although I have made some of those...but I love smallish primitive wall hangings...and lately I have begun to work with felted wool applique...it is so much fun for me to cut and sew bits and pieces together into something unique and wonderful.  My love for anything pumpkinish knows no bounds...I just love this time of year when I can put handmade pumpkins all around the house.  The only awful thing about Fall on the East Coast is that it is often hot and humid...like today's 94 degrees.   My felted wool is sticking to me as I stitch away.  But that is not stopping me...I want to make a pumpkin a day until all of the pumpkins in this photo are all done.  Lucy complicates my stitching because she tries to attack my thread every time I take a stitch...she firmly believes she is helping me.  But one pumpkin is nearly done...one more eye and he is ready for displaying.

Finally...

I think that LucyGrace and I will share this book...and hopefully she will gain insight in how to kick her organic catnip addiction.

On The Horizon...

There are far too many books on my shelves that I want to read and far too many books on my Kindle that I want to read.  I love my new Kindle 3 because I formerly owned the dinosaur Kindle called Kindle 1...loved it but all of my books were clumped together and it was really hard to know which ones I had already read...mostly due to the fact that I have this annoying habit of needing my Kindle books to all be on the front cover of the book...just like books on a shelf...closed and filed neatly away.  But...to my delight...with my new Kindle I can make collections...neat and tidy and amazing collections...and all of my unread books are in their own collection and any book I am totally finished with is neatly archived...and laid to rest...sort of like a cozy little book heaven. 

So...even though I have enough books to read for a very long time...I am still buying those books that just sort of pop up with a ton of buzz surrounding them...that leads me to these books...

Up From The Blue by Susan Henderson

“A rare literary page-turner full of shocking discoveries and twists. Susan Henderson has created a remarkable narrator—as memorable for her feistiness as for her tenderness. Up From the Blue is going to be one of this year’s major debuts.” (Josh Kilmer-Purcell, author of I Am Not Myself These Days )

 

 

 

 

 

A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion...for some reason this has been $2.99 on Amazon's Kindle for the longest time...

  There is a fabulous review by Carlolyn Parkhurst on Amazon's site.

So Shelley by Ty Roth 

I have read that this is mesmerizing...I am only mad that it is not available for my Kindle yet.  And last...but just for now...

The Informationists : A Thriller by Taylor Stevens...no cover for this one yet...

"A terrific thriller with piercing tension, chest-tightening adventure, and a one-of-a-kind heroine I’ve continued to think about long after finishing the last page. Taylor Stevens is a born storyteller. I couldn’t put THE INFORMATIONIST down."

—Michael Palmer, author of The Last Surgeon

I Am Without Words This Wednesday...