Spring has sprung.

Hello! I am enjoying the turn of the season, before the blistering heat of summer appears. Yay Texas!The weather is lovely. Although, I have been sneezing a lot more lately.


According to the Good Reads I started I have read 22 books so far. No way!

I finished the Hunger Games trilogy, Room, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

School is winding down. Only a few more classes until this lil' gal is an official librarian. 

Currently reading: Swamplandia!

Welp.

School has come back in roaring force. I'm tired and annoyed and blech. Finished The Happiness Project. Turned in a bunch of stuff that I couldn't get to.


Only a few more weeks. Gotta go!

Currently reading: a bunch of crap about public libraries!

spring break!

Whoo. Haha. I have been enjoying as much as my "spring break" as I can. No homework means more reading. :) Finished the third of the Stieg Larsson trilogy and Water for Elephants and Zombie Spaceship Wasteland and Hunger Games (sooo goood).

Yes so things are good. I spent the night drinking free mojitos and margaritas so I'm feeling good.

It's nice to have a little breathing room.

Currently reading Room, The Happiness Project, Mind Wide Open.

Blech

This has been my mantra for the last couple of weeks. However, I feel much better now. No homework due for 2 weeks. Thank goodness. Had an interview today for a big girl job. Think it went well. Had to do some last minute stuff but things turned out ok.



Finished Blindness, Blink and Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.

Currently reading Hunger Games, Zombies vs Unicorns, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Girl who kicked the hornet's nest because I need books everywhere!


Okey dokey. Hopefully next time I'll feel less blechy.

Birthday

Helloo! Things are going well. I think I'm finally getting into the swing of school and am successfully navigating the line of doing what is necessary vs. what is assigned. I am in the midst of birthday week. Whoo! Had a small get together this week for the actual day and I am having my Mad Men extravaganza on Saturday. Yay!

My wonderful husband bought me a Nook color for my birfday! We don't have downloadables at the library I work at yet but I got card from an out of town library solely for downloadable use. Go internet!


Let me give a quick rundown of the books I've read.

1. Unbearable Lightness - Portia di Rossi
2.  Superfreakonomics -  Steven D.  Levitt and Stephen Dubner
3. Free to All - Abigail von Slyck
4. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
5. This Book Is Overdue! : How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All - Marilyn Johnson
6. Greyhound - Steffan Piper
7. The Return of the Dapper Men - Jim McCann 
8. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
9. You say Tomato, I say shut up! : A love story- Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn

Currently reading: The Girl who Played with Fire.  Hubby and I watched the Swedish version of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and I decided to give the second one a read. 10 million people can't be wrong! 

On the shelf:
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
12. Something by Mary Roach
13. Blink -Malcom Gladwell
14. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress -Rhoda Janzen
15. Matrimony - Joshua Henkin
16. Self help: Stories - Lorrie Moore 
17. American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
18. The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelso 
19. Blindness - Jose Saramago
20. Room - Emily Donoghue
21. Mind wide Open- Steven Johnson
22. Palo Alto - James Franco
23. The Impossible will take a little while - Paul Rogat Loeb

I'm doing pretty well and ahead of schedule which makes me kinda proud. That's it for now.

Yep.

A haiku for the day.

Should still make my goal.
Reading reading. Mostly school.
Sometimes I hate school.

Update

Finally finished The Book Thief. What a lovely heartbreaking amazing book, well worth the weeks I spent on it.

Started reading This Book is Overdue and so far so good. Might have to check out the previous work on obituaries the author wrote. I also checked out Greyhound which came highly recommended by an adorable customer at the library who walked in and said, "I have to give a book review! This book was so good."

Hopefully she's right. Well I gotta go, husband is awake and needs attention.

Oh school.

Well, just jotting a quick note to say that I fished a third book, Free to All by Abigail von Slyck. I had to read it for class and busted it out in two days. Go me.

A pretty interesting take on the way public libraries formed due to Carnegie philanthropy, the thoughts his personal secretary Bertram and the architects of the time.

Anyhow, still trying to get through The Book Thief. I got Return of the Dapper Men and picked up another book You Say Tomato, I say shut up! I should meet my 4 book minimum by the 28th.

Well. I better get back to school time.
 

Superfreakonomics done!

Blahhh. School has started and I already feel behind. I hate seeing the syllabus with all the due dates on it.

I'm behind on my resolution already too!

Need to finish Book Thief by tomorrow to stay sort of on track. My husband took the day off on Friday which is usually just me time so I blame him for not letting me get my reading done. :) Oh well. Hopefully I'll have time to blog more next week and write the two reviews.

Until then.

Happy reading!

Late New Year's Resolution

So I decided to give myself a late new year resolution. Read a book a week/52 books this year. No audiobooks either. Mostly cause I hate those.

So far..
1. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi

A book I've read!

In Progress
2. Superfreakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
3. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

(Books I am currently reading.)

On the shelf
4. This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All - Marilyn Johnson
5. The return of the Dapper Men - Jim McCann
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
7. Something by Mary Roach
8. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress -Rhoda Janzen
9. Matrimony - Joshua Henkin
10. Self help: Stories - Lorrie Moore
11. American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
12. The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelso
13. Blindness - Jose Saramago
14. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris

(Culled from friends and preference here are some things that I hope to read this year.)

I'll probably be using this to blab about other stuff I'm interested in. I'm just getting my career started in the library world. I'm also in grad school and listen to too many podcasts and watch too many movies and Netflix on demand. :)


Coming soon! A review of Unbearable Lightness.