Bullety, Edition 29; Reader

• This morning Erin told me that her favourite thing to do is go to the library, or a book fair, or the bookstore. Anything that has to do with books.  My heart soared!  I've also noticed that as she eats breakfast or lunch (or a meal that doesn't require us to all eat together and pay attention) she scours the kitchen for a magazine, newspaper, book or even the cereal box for something to read while she eats. This is all proof that she is indeed my child!

• I've signed up to play ball hockey on Thursday nights this summer. Cause, you know, I have nothing else going on! (Yearh, right!).  In any case, my friend Moyra and I had been dying to find out if we made the same team.  Yesterday she called me at work (this was important!) to tell me we had in fact been put on the same team.  I yelled out "SHUT UP! That's awesome!" and jumped up and down like a little girl who had just been told Hannah Montana was on her way over to give her makeup tips.  Yes, I did this at work. My co-workers think I'm beyond crazy, but we're on the same team! First game is tomorrow!

• I'm satisfied with the outcome of Big Brother 9 this season.  I'm not a huge fan of Adam's, he's a bit of a bumbling ass, but whatever. No one really floated my boat this year.  Well, except for Ryan. I'm admitting I have a big crush. I don't know if it's his size (I like big broad guys, are you shocked?) or the tattoos or his smile (rockin'!), but he was quite delish overall.  His girlfriend is a total skeezebucket, but who am I to judge?

• Read any good books lately?  Give me some titles you've enjoyed lately.  In the last while I've polished off "The Book Thief", several really bad Jackie Collins novels, some really good Janet Evanovich novels and am now the last person to read "The Kite Runner".  "Certain Girls" by Jennifer Weiner is next on my shelf, but after that, I'm out.  Give me reads!

Comments

[chantal]

Holly over at this&that just reviewed "the River Wife" and said she loved it. I just added it to my list. I am finishing "Into the Wild" and I am about to pick up "One Thousand Splendid Suns" which is from the same author as "the Kite Runner". I also enjoyed "The Birth House".

[Sammi]

Well I just read Sweetness in the Belly, by Camilla Gibb. It was great, it was up for the Giller Prize this year.

[Laura]

Fear not, you are not the last person to read The Kite Runner.. I have just borrowed it from a friend to read. I too just finished One Thousand Splendid Suns, and before that The Other Boleyn Girl (read the book, skip the movie) Both are must reads.

[The St. Louis Family]

Just found your blog and love it! I am in the middle of Certain Girls and really enjoying it, but I love all of her books. I would recommend anything by Elizabeth Berg, and her newest one of short stories (even though I normally never read short stories, but I will read anything by Berg) called The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, does not disappoint. I would also recommend The God of Animals ( Aryn Kyle); The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls); Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella; The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri); and Lullabies for Little Criminals ( Heather O'Neill).
Happy Reading!
Heather

[Kari]

I own "the Other Boleyn Girl" but haven't started it yet. I am currently reading "Wicked" which is about the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz and how she became "wicked". It's very eye opening and interesting. It's from the standpoint of "what if....the wicked witch were actually not wicked she just has that label because she goes against the norm which everyone else says is good but in actuality is evil." VERY interesting and a very easy read.

[Kari]

Shame on me! I forgot a VERY important book I just finished titled "Schuyler's Monster" which is about the journey of a father and his daughter (she happens to have an extremely rare disease that has robbed her of speech) and how they live with this "monster" and how they have overcome obstacles. A VERY good book. I've been reading this guys blog for a couple of years now.

[Soire]

I am strange in what I read, so I am currently reading "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls" (http://www.amazon.com/Odd-Girl-Out-Culture-Aggression/dp/0151006040) and it's very good.

[Carolyn J.]

I am also a cereal-box reader. I read the back of bottles if I'm in a strange powder room with no reading material.

here is my Goodreads list-
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/264971

[Marianne]

I love love love books!

Here is my goodreads list:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list?shelf=read

You really should join!

[Marianne]

Oh, I too am reading Lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill and so far it's a great book. A little heavy but good.

[alison]

My oldest is just like Erin, which is also just like me, the way Erin is just like you! Did that make sense?

Good reads: I'll second the suggestion of "The Glass Castle", by Jeanette Walls. I really liked it. Also "The Crow Road" by Iain Banks. Very good, funny coming-of-age story, full of sex and death and whisky drinking (set in Scotland). If you like mysteries (you mentioned Evanovich) try the Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke - very well-written, atmospheric, literate stories set in and around New Orleans. Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent" is one of my faves, and if you haven't read it, "The Poisonwood Bible" is just an amazing read. It's by Barbara Kingsolver.

[Pendullum]

Alison's recommendation of The Glass Castle... It truly is harrowing tale...I read it about two years ago and the images are still in my mind about how the heck that family survived...
Nurture vs Nature...
The Kite Runner truly is lovely...Pamper yourself... I can not bring myself to watch the movie as the book was so good...
But also on my list of voyages that I would recommend would be Buddha by Deepa Chopra, and the Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards...

[ali]

i totally get the Ryan appeal. and Jen? EW!

[Evil Twin's Wife]

I am also a cereal box reader (and a reader of anything -- too bad my toilet paper doesn't have a novel on it!). My oldest son, also an April 98 baby (hint, hint - you know me) is a huge reader too. I'm thrilled.

[karen]

this may be too much information but i panic if i find myself in a bathroom without something to read (i can rhyme off the ingredients of all the shampoos in my bathroom!)

anyhooo, sorry about that. Just read The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd and it is fantastic.

[Colleen Hewitt]

Hey Chantal,

I'm reading a book, A Forest Burning by Carole Giangrande, that I picked up at the CP library, by fluke. I'm really surprised at how great it is....

I haven't gotten to the end yet, but totally recommend it.

On a side note, is Alex doing soccer school in Beckwith this year?