Ugh! Moving has left me with no time for reading! I was able to finish "Water for Elephants" which was a really sweet, good read.
I should be starting Then We Came to the End for book club, but we pushed back the date and my friend is going to lend me her copy. So what to read next?? Decisions. Decisions.
I'll let you know :)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Water for Elephants
I just started reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and have only read a couple of chapters. But I thought this was great...
"When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start to say confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it."
Isn't that so true??
"When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start to say confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it."
Isn't that so true??
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Roomates Wanted
I read Roommates Wanted by Lisa Jewell. It's completely chick lit, but in my opinion it's smarter and more creative than Candace Bushnell or the like.
In her latest novel, Jewell follows the story of Toby and his house full of random "roommates". Toby's father bought him the huge old house 15 years earlier and after his wife left him, he opened it up to creative people in need of a free/cheap place to live. After 15 years, the sitting tenant dies and Toby finally decides to grow up.
Leah, lives across the street and is intrigued by the odd assortment of tenants in the house across the street. After 3 years, she finally has a chance to talk to Toby and joins his plan to fix up the place, kick out all the tenants and sell the house. Of course everyone ends up happy and either in love or on the way there, but that's to be expected - it is chick lit after all.
In her latest novel, Jewell follows the story of Toby and his house full of random "roommates". Toby's father bought him the huge old house 15 years earlier and after his wife left him, he opened it up to creative people in need of a free/cheap place to live. After 15 years, the sitting tenant dies and Toby finally decides to grow up.
Leah, lives across the street and is intrigued by the odd assortment of tenants in the house across the street. After 3 years, she finally has a chance to talk to Toby and joins his plan to fix up the place, kick out all the tenants and sell the house. Of course everyone ends up happy and either in love or on the way there, but that's to be expected - it is chick lit after all.
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