Goodwill has the best book deals :)

My Goodwill score today:
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Lost by Gregory Maguire
The Summer I Dared and Looking for Peyton Place both by Barbara Delinsky
The Pilot's Wife and The Last Time They Met both by Anita Shreve
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
The Kite Runner
Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz
A Night Without Armor by Jewel
Phantom by Terry Goodkind

Plus, I got 10 Disney movie classics for rainy day recesses. And three tshirts for Nate.

yay!!

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I finished The Luxe by Anna Godbersen last night. Loved, loved, loved it! I was hesitant to read it, because I wasn't sure if I would like the time period it was set in (I like historical fiction, but more along the lines of The Other Boelyn Girl). I thought the gossip columns were great and there was plenty of scandal for 1899. I cannot wait to read the next book!

I've moved on to The Book Thief, which I've heard nothing but good things about. Thank goodness for 3 day weekends!!

sisterly love in the city of brotherly love
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Two more books at the Berlin Farmer's Market today: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Slam by Nick Hornby. Plus a back issue of the Food Network (because somehow I missed the month of April). All for $5.

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Its been a little bit since I've updated. I haven't really been keeping very good track of the books I've read, recently. I do know I just finished Catching Fire. It started off a little slower for me than Hunger Games, but I still really enjoyed it. I cannot wait for August and the release of Mockingjay.

I got Ella Minnow Pea, Flying Changes, Luxe, and The Book Thief from the library last week. I am only a chapter or two into The Book Thief but I am pretty sure that I am going to LOVE it. I don't think I am even going to try to read Flying Changes. I put it on hold because it was by the same author as Water for Elephants, which I LOVE. But the first book, Riding Lessons, didn't do much for me. And I think this book is the same characters. We'll see.

And yesterday was great at the Goodwill by my parents. First, I found a Sequence for Kids game, which I grabbed up immediately. Even if I don't have a job next year, I will teach again. And its PERFECT for first graders. Then, Nate and I found a ton of books:
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty (I just ordered Sloppy Firsts on Amazon this week)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Dead School by Patrick McCabe (which I never heard of until yesterday).
Nate got three books (a cookbook, an autobiography of William Shatner, and a diet book). After his student discount, our grand total was $6.54. I love Goodwill.

Also, last night, Nate hooked up the Super Nintendo from my parents house and I spent 3 hours playing Super Mario World. We just finished the Forest of Illusions level. After we get back from the Berlin Farmer's Market today, I plan on finishing off the game :)

The Graduate: Nate Caberto, JD
(quick story. I made Nate a tshirt that said "I graduated today!!" and put the school and date and he wore it to the Sugarland concert that night. The people that set up next to us started talking to Nate, and apparently the woman in the group was also a graduate from Widener, in 1991! They bought us a beer each, and Nate spent the night chatting up his new friends.)

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Spring Break is over. My 10 days of uninterrupted reading has ended. I am looking forward to getting back to work - I have missed my class and I'm excited to hear all about their breaks. :)

Also, I just learned how to put a book on hold online at the library and suspend it until the date I want it to come in. I think that's pretty cool. I put about 15 books on hold using this feature. Oh, and speaking of the library, I had a book on hold at a library that I don't usually visit. Nate and I were headed to my parents on Friday, so I thought we could stop at the library on the way down. I copied the directions exactly as they appeared on Google Maps and off we went. Imagine our surprise when we circled the area for FIFTEEN MINUTES and still could not find the library. I ended up canceling the hold and placing a new hold for the same book, to be picked up at my regular library. What a mess.

Army Wives is all new tonight! And Glee on Tuesday! And the last episode of Ugly Betty on my birthday :(

Yum! Wasabi flavored KitKats!

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13 Reasons Why

I just finished 13 Reasons Why, which fulfills a challenge for The Nest Book Club Spring Challenge (5 points, Read a book with a number in the title). This book was written with two narrators, telling the story at the same time. One story is the past and one is the present, but the past affects the present. It was written well and surprisingly not confusing to follow at all. Not the best book I've read this month, but still "enjoyable" (for a very sad topic).

Its very hard to believe that my spring break is over in a day and half. Where did it go?? Although, I am looking forward to heading back to school.

TROUBLE

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I finished two books in two days - I may not have enough books from the library for my whole spring break!

I read The Hunger Games in less than one day. Its a YA book about a post-apocalyptic world. I could not put it down! Normally, I have a hard time with YA books because I feel like they are too whiny and filled with teen angst. But I loved this one. I can't wait to read the next book in the series, Catching Fire. Things between Katniss and Peeta are so unfinished. And what happens when Katniss returns to her family? Are they proud of her or are they ashamed at how she's acted, the way that Peeta is? And I read the jacket cover for CF and I am already wondering why Gale is so cold towards Katniss. Unfortunately, I am #7 on the list at the library.

The book I finished yesterday was While I'm Falling. It was a good book, but I was anxious to finish it, not because it was un-put-down-able, but instead because I wanted to move on to my next book. It was a solid read, with good character development and a nice pace. But it wasn't overly gripping.

Last night, Nate and I rented The Watchmen and An Education. Both movies are based on writing, one a comic book and the other a book by Nick Hornby. We only saw The Watchmen. Maybe we'll watch the other before we go to the his parents house later today.

Today is Easter, so Happy Easter!




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