Sunday, May 06, 2007

School's Nearly Done...

And I am reading!!! I have been able to read so much more latelt...it is great!


I fininished Ancestors of Avalon, by Diana Paxson, and ended up enjoying far more than I anticipated. Some parts I felt a bit distracted from the break in typical style of the Avalon books, but really over all if you have been considering reading this book I would say do it...you may not love it all, but you probably will enjoy it.

Next up on the nightstand was Little Earthquakes bu Jennifer Weiner. I have already read Weiner's Good in Bed and In Her Shoes so I was looking forward to reading this book. Considering all of the new babies that have and will be arriving lately it was a humorous look into the life of a group of friends brought together by motherhood. This is also a nice lighter read than many of the books that I have picked up lately (exactly what I needed among the stress of the end of my final semester of school).

Right now I am reading Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. It is a very short book that has chapters about different concepts or possibilities for time based loosely on Einstein's theories. Since I am in no way a physics expert I can not say if they are anything close to Einstein's theories, but they are fascinating. The idea of people living far away from to center of the earth on stilted cities to slow down time or the current moment is the only time known (no memory) is presented in short chapter essays that tickle the imagination and satisfy sci-fi fantasies. A teacher I worked with used this as source material for an art project for her seniors. I also have another book that this teacher used which is a collection of fictional tales told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan titled Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Also in the stack is Perfume, a murder mystery, and both will wait until I read my BooksFree.com books.

Since I am back to my increased consumption of books I have opted to re-join BooksFree.com to be a bit economical about my reading habits. In the interest of full disclosure, I am not receiving money for an endorsement of this service so I feel that my opinion is relatively unbiased. This website offers a subscription based book borrowing service much like NetFlix. I used this service prior to going back to school and liked the convenience of having a few books arrive every so often. The downside is that many of the books I want to read are not available but selection is pretty decent. One plus is the customer service is pretty good. One set of books did not arrive so they quickly got my next books in que shipped out and due to a shipping issue they bounced back so the company sent those books plus the next two on my list to make up for the problems. I have received Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Daughter of Fortune, and the graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2.

There should be much to report in the next few months!

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