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6:01 PM
Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter

Yup, that's been my reading recently. I reread the first four and then read the whole new one yesterday. I love love love them. I want more!!! Anyone know of any good fanfic?

5:41 PM
Made from Scratch didn't end up being interesting enough to renew, so I just read the beginning. Oh well. Maybe I'll go back to it sometime.

Today I finally finished Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser. I only read it during my lunch hour, so it took a while. But it was really good! I hadn't read much French history, but I highly recommend this one. It's interesting seeing how Marie Antoinette's actual life differs so much from what you hear about it.

Now reading Crescent: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber. It took me a bit to get into it, but I think I like it. I'll let you know more tomorrow.

6:03 PM
This afternoon I finished
A Stitch in Time by Monica Ferris. It's one in her series of needlework mysteries. I thought it was the second, but realized while reading it that I missed one. It was pretty good, but not great. I like the atmosphere created in the books, but the actual mystery wasn't that hard to figure out. Definitely worth a read, though.

On to
Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth. I'm starting it tonight, so look for a post tonight or tomorrow on my impressions so far.

5:38 PM
I'm stopping with Beulah Hill. Because I just don't like it. So there. :-P

Next is A Stitch in Time... I'll find a link for it soon.

4:26 PM
It's Get Caught Reading Month!
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8:47 AM
Yesterday I finished The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini. It took me a little while to get into this book, but once I did, I really really loved it. Really. It is the story of a woman in her twenties who quits her job (which she doesn't really like) and moves to a new town because her husband finds a good job there. She has trouble finding a new job (partially because she doesn't like accounting, which is what she's been doing), and starts doing "temporary" work for an eccentric old woman whose estate her husband is renovating. She convinces the woman to teach her to quilt, and the story goes from there. It's really really good. And it's a series! I can't wait for the next one. But I'm making myself space them out a bit... next time I go to the library I can look for the next, but I won't make a special trip. Really. (Trying to convince myself here...)
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8:00 PM
I'm such a bookaholic. I work all day in a bookstore, and then I go to the library in my free time. There I get no less than twelve books, plus the two I borrowed at work. They range from traditional mysteries to sci fi to history to science to (don't get excited anyone, it's just research for a novel) pregnancy and parenting.

So. Here they are, with some comments. Of course, I haven't read them yet, so I'm sure my comments after I do so will be much more interesting.

First, the two from work:
Beulah Hill by William Heffernan. I don't really know much about this one; it's the mystery book group selection for this month.
Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth by Jean Zimmerman. I saw this while shelving and, well, if you've been reading here a while it shouldn't surprise you that I just had to read it. I've been meaning to read more social science anyway, and this seemed like a good place to start.

Now, from the library, in no particular order:
Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens by Kitty Ferguson. I saw this on the new release shelf and it just looked interesting.
Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. Since I'm a mod over at Spirit Chasers now, I figured I should read the book. ;-)

Murder to Music edited by Cynthia Manson and Kathleen Halligan. This is an anthology of mystery short stories involving music. I saw it on the new release shelf and I'm trying to read more short stories in order to be able to write them, so I got it.
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton. Yes, I'm trying it again.
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters. Second in the Amelia Peabody mystery series, which I am just discovering--and loving.
Crescent: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber. On the new release shelf; looked interesting.
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George. Second in the Inspector Lynley series.
Jennifer Government: A Novel by Max Barry. Trying to broaden my horizons a bit with some futuristic/sci fi stuff.
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott. I loved Bird by Bird and I've been meaning to read her other books.
Celt and Pepper: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame by Ralph McInerny. How could I resist that title?

And these two I'm reading for my pregnancy novel research:
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood by Naomi Wolf

Having Babies : Nine Months Inside an Obstetrical Practice by Thomas Congdon. I get the impression I won't like this one much, based on this statement in the jacket: "In the last decade medical marvels have transformed the primal act of childbearing." No no no no no.

So. Yup. I'll be busy for a while, huh?

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6:29 AM
Library day, library day! Yay!

I'll let you know what I bring home.

4:05 PM
How... weird. Thanks jaQ.
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A record of my reading.

Reading:
Crescent: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber