i remember now …

Three other books I forgot to mention last week:

Pretty Little Dirty: Granted I read this while lounging on a beach, but it was interesting … i appreciated that the friendship between Lisa and Celeste was complicated and spiked with jealousy as well as devotion … there’s nothing more annoying that reading a book with female leads that’s all coffee dates and shoe-sharing. 

Picked up Thank you for smoking at the airport and read the book from cover-to-cover in no time. Funny … Haven’t seen the movie, but hope to catch it on the Movie Network at some point …

 

Also started (but did not finish) Veronica … not sure why. Don’t think I gave this one enough time. My attention span lately has been less than 100 pages and if a book doesn’t grab me, I’m gone … think part of the problem is that I’m approaching reading like it’s some sort of assignment instead of a leisure activity … tsk, tsk – i know …

i know, i know …

Other than being silly busy, i have no excuse. For the two people who ask me regularly why I’m not posting – thank you for the kick in the butt – I’m going to do my best to get back into the routine.

Here’s what I’ve read since we last met:

• The Other Boleyn Girl

Yes, I read it because the movie’s coming out with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman … but, I have confessed my weakness for historical fiction and I do enjoy Philippa Gregory’s books from time-to-time. It is what it is and I liked it.

• The Hungry Years: Confessions of a food addict

Great for the first 100 pages, but I started to lose interest quickly.

• Running with Scissors

Odd (odd) story, but worth reading … looking forward to the movie, but I can’t imagine it will capture how bizarre the relationship is between mother, son and the adopted family.

… am drawing a blank … there’s been others, but two are waterlogged as I read them while in Mexico and I can’t picture the titles for the life of me … will look under the bed and report back. One was a slightly higher-brow version of chick-lit and described an interesting relationship between two female friends.

At the moment, I’m attempting The Red Tent (for a second time), and am reading A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali. Struggling.

Anyone read Red? I read Snow, which is also by Orhan Pamuk and enjoyed his style of writing … have picked it up and read the first page while standing at Cole’s … but haven’t quite made it to the cash.