Book Wrap-Up: February 2010

Read in February 2010:

9. Hate List - Jennifer Brown
10. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
11. Roasting in Hell's Kitchen - Gordon Ramsay
12. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
13. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
14. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult

Quote of the Day

"'You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

'How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.'"

- Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult

Library Loot: Week of February 27, 2010

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Marg of Reading Adventures and Eva of A Striped Armchair that encourages bloggers to share books they've checked out from the library.

I haven't posted in a while so this is list is a compilation of books I've gotten from the library over the last few weeks.

The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
Take the Cannoli - Sarah Vowell
Cleaving - Julie Powell
The Shack - William P. Young
Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving
The Strain - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Noah's Compass - Anne Tyler

Musing Mondays

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme hosted by Rebecca at Just One More Page.

Today's Musing Mondays post is about keeping books. Do you keep all the books you every buy? Just the ones you love? Just collectibles? What do you do with the ones you don't want to keep?

I do have quite a collection of books but they're mostly books I want to read, not ones I have read. I don't keep very many of my books. If I like a book enough that I know I will re-read it, or if it's one of my all-time favorites, I definitely will keep it.

The books I don't want to keep I take to a local used bookstore. They take used books in trade for store credit so I take bags of books there and use my in-store credit to buy more books! It's really a win-win situation for all involved. :)

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila at
One Person's Journey Through a World of Books.

Read last week...

Roasting in Hell's Kitchen - Gordon Ramsay

I enjoyed this book, but not because it's was particularly well written. It wasn't. It's a typical memoir written by a celebrity, so of course it's not going to be well written. But it was enjoyable, mostly because I just love Chef Ramsay! I recently started watching Kitchen Nightmares and reruns of Hell's Kitchen and wanted to know more about the man. If you're a fan of Chef Ramsay, I would recommend this. Otherwise, you're probably not going to enjoy it, sorry to say.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris

Another one I wasn't quite impressed with. My relationship with David Sedaris' writing is kind of touch and go - some of his pieces are absolutely hilarious while others simply fall flat. This is a mix of both, almost most of them were, to put it simply, just boring.

Currently Reading ...

I just today started reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. I've read so many good reviews of this book so I wanted to give it a try. So far I like it but I'm only about 10 pages in so it's hard to tell yet if I'll enjoy it.

Quote of the Day

God: I resent you blaming me for everything. And I do not exist to give you what you want.

- Angry Conversations with God, Susan E. Isaacs

Quote of the Day

All a rainbow is is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out.

- A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs