Is this a monthly blog or what?

...that's a question I've been asked a number of times. So, I'm going to try and do a better job of keeping this up to date.

So, what have I been up to? Well, working for one. Things are going well there. I'm still enjoying what I do, and I'm almost at 10 years with the same company - yay!

I'm also reading a lot. I joined a new book club and I'm very excited about it. Our first book we read was Jodi Picoult's new novel, Change of Heart.





What is funny is I had bought the book just before hearing about this new book club, and it was the next book I wanted to read! Plus, I had been hearing advertisements on XM radio for the book... the sound bite sums up the book very nicely "can you forgive someone you hate to save someone you love?" It was a good book, some parts were a bit over the top, but overall I enjoyed it... and it lead to a very interesting discussion at the book club.

Now, we're reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.





So far so good, I'm only about 50 pages in and it has already gotten me hooked :)

Below is a list of the other books on my personal "to read" list (in no particular order):

prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccostomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber
The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
I, Elizabeth: A Novel by Rosalind Miles