For the past couple of Summers our insurance company, in conjunction with the Archdiocese of Boston, has invited us to participate in a nifty little program. For filling out a questionnaire and vowing to improve your eating and exercise habits in the coming year, they'd send you a HUNDRED DOLLAR gift certificate, to any place that was listed (on an impressively long list!) of options on a website. I've dutifully filled out the questionnaire, vowed to improve, failed to do so, and spent all my money at Amazon.com on Summer reading.
This year, mysteriously, the offer did not come. I was at a loss for what to do, as I don't have a hundred extra bucks lying around for Summer books. I asked around and got a stack of paperbacks from my sister, and vowed yet again to read the Chronic (what?) les of Narnia. I still might get to that.
But now it's mid-August and I haven't bought ANY summer books, and I have a little vacation coming up during which I'd love nothing more than to spend hours on my porch reading something wonderful. I got Borders gift certificates for my pre-birthday and they are burning holes in my pocket book. But at this point, shouldn't I use them for school books?
I just tore through a book from my sister called Firefly Lane, a typical Chick Lit tome, which was not great but kept me reading. I think I'm past any Chick Lit phase I may have been in, if I ever was. Before that I read the middle chapters of My Stroke of Insight, a true story of a scientist who observed her own stroke while she was having it.
So, what next? I think I'll take a stroll (ha: scroll!) through my Amazon wish list and treat myself to just enough reading to get me through the month of August....
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Margo if you can last until Gabe's party I will bring a selection of books for you to borrow. you may pick and choose....
Aj Jacobs 'The Year of Living Biblically' and 'Know It All' are two I really think you will like. But I also have a variety. And if you want Regency romances sigh, just say the word!
Library.
And some more unsolicited recommendations: lately I have been reading Louise Erdrich. Good stuff. Interesting spiritual aspect. You might like it. Also just finished "Loving Frank". It was OK, but I mostly just read it because he lived and built where I live (that would be Frank Lloyd Wright).
Go to the library.
would you like a batch of civil war soldiers letters to read and transcribe? I am kinda stalled on this project and have about 100 still to go. You are welcome to them!!! Just say the word!!!
ILL (Inter-Library Loan) is the best deal in the world. Borrow any book that your little heart desires for nothing! College libraries often give you a longer borrow period than the local, but even the local libe will give you each book for 2 weeks. And, you don't have to find shelf space for it after you've read it!
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