I didn’t get an invitation, and there wasn’t one pending for me when I went in to set myself up. But I did it myself, and now have Amazon Readers listed on my dashboard. But I am not listed as a contributor. Hopefully since I am contributing that will change.

Thanks to my Amazing daughters I am set up on the AmRead blog. I picked up a Laurence Sanders hardcover book at the clubhouse before dominos and when I got ready to go home someone else had taken it. So I got another Anne Rivers Siddons book called Fault Lines (paperback). I have only read a couple of pages because the print is so tiny that I have to take my glasses off and I’m reading while watching the US Open so its a nuisence.

Well, I decided it is never going to get easier to find time to do this so I will just jump in. I have finished just a few books since having Jackson. The first was Amy Tan’s The Opposite of Fate. This was a series of essays so it was perfect for reading while taking care of a baby. I have also read Running With Scissors and another one that I can’t remember right now. By far the best book I have read recently is Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Demin by David Sedaris. Very funny.

Right now I am tackling a hard (non-fiction) book by Christopher Hedges, a writer with the New York Times. The book is War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. It is part of a campus-wide effort to have everyone read the same book and to hold discussion groups, etc. We just got a grant to bring the author here in the spring. It is actually a cool idea but I have been reading for a week and I am not out of the introduction yet. I think I may have to read the Albom book first to get me warmed up.

I finished Thin Air yesterday and then read A Catskill Eagle also one of the Spenser Series, it was an earlier one that was checked out of the library when I got to it on the list. Again very easy PI read. I started that series this year and am going through them pretty quickly I usually get two every time I go to the library. I went to the library yesterday (before finishing Thin Air) so when I go to read today I will just reach in the bag and grab a new one. Some of the best I’ve read so far this year: Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver, I can’t get into Poisonwood Bible I pick it up every time I finish all my books before I get back to the library. Bet Me by Jennifer Cruisie was a cute fun read and along the same line was Lucky Stars by Jane Heller and Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella. White Oleander by Janet Fitch was much better than the movie, and the movie was okay.

Gretchen

OK, now I can do it. If we have to sign our posts, it also needs to be a rule that if we comment as Amazon Reader we need to sign them too.

Between those two books I mentioned I also read Lost Light by Michael Connelly; a Private Eye kind of story a quick and easy read and I liked very much: Perfect by Judith McNaught, large hardcover that gave me carpel tunnel holding it up but I stayed up all one night finishing it. And before those I read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri that Erika gave me. Also very good.

I got Angels and Demons from the clubhouse and read that and now am looking for the DaVinci Code. Angels and Demons was a prequel to TDC so now I’m ready to read that.

Mom