SomeReads

Well, once again, I’m working on the day of the readathon, so I can’t read along. I’m so bummed! Last fall when the next date was announced I was so excited because I looked forward in my catalog and it wasn’t “my” Saturday to work. Alas, my work schedule has been upended this spring, and here I am, stuck at work.

However, like last time, I *do* have some time to cheer!

So here’s a big R-E-A-D!!! Hope everyone’s having fun! And maybe, just maybe, I can join the reading in the fall!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week’s teaser is from Elizabeth Kostova’s new book, The Swan Thieves, which I received from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program (but not an ARC).

I said I wasn’t raised around the medical profession, but perhaps it isn’t so strange that I should have chosen the branch of it I did. My mother and father were not at all scientific, although their personal discipline, transmitted to me along with my oatmeal and clean socks with the intensity parents pour through an only child, stood me in good stead through the rigors of college biology and the worse rigors of med school — the rigor mortis of nights spent entirely in study and memorization, the relative relief of later sleepless night hurrying around on hospital rotations.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week’s teaser is from The Bad Book Affair by Ian Sansom, p. 56 (ARC)

At thirty there’s no way you’re going to start behaving like…whoever the hell it was, it didn’t matter, because in fact you’re just a half-decent butcher or a baker or a candle-stick maker, or even a librarian, let’s say, for the sake of argument, a mobile librarian named Israel Armstrong, on the northernmost coast of the north of the north of Ireland, and your whole life — let’s just pretend, for who could possibly imagine a life of such inanity and nullity? — is preoccupied with cataloguing, and shelving, and making sure you remember to switch off the lights before you go home to the pathetic little converted chicken coop —  imagine! — where you live on a farm — oh god — in the middle of the middle of nowhere around the back of beyond, and your idea of a good time is coming here to Zelda’s to drink ersatz coffee with elderly men and women in car coats…

Basically, his life was over.

I participated in the Holiday Book Blogger Swap this year, and I’m so glad my “Santee” liked her books! It was hard to mail off The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, as that’s one I’m wanting to read myself!

I never (or haven’t yet) received a package, but this isn’t a complaint. Things happen, and for me, most of the joy is in picking something for someone else. Getting something in return is an added benefit (and I often forget I’m getting something, too, while I’m picking gifts!). My main reason for posting this is in case my Secret Santa did send something and is waiting for a response from me. So, if you’re reading this and waiting, something must have happened in the mail.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser for this week is from The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett, my first read for the Terry Pratchett 2010 Challenge, p. 123.

“Oh,” he said, “I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I’ll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I’ll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I’ll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we’ll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure.” Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the ceiling, whistling tunelessly.

I hope it doesn’t matter that I have been inactive for many months. This was so much fun last year! I may have had more fun putting together my swap than I did receiving mine.

Hopefully some of you are finding your way to my new site (well…after I post the link on blogspot…)

I’m still setting up house here and learning my way around WordPress templates. Not sure I like this one yet – definitely need to change the header image. So, things may change for a bit, but the posts are what matters, right?

I just bought somereads.com, so very soon, I will be moving this blog to a Word Press blog. Yay! Now I will be able to update more easily, I think…I hope…

Thanks so much for the comments I’ve gotten, y’all! To answer the question, no, unfortunately I’m not reading in the readathon. Alas, I am working 9-6 today with plans for the evening. I am having fun cheerleading, though, and I may be able to fit in some reading later tonight. (Who am I kidding? Of course I’ll fit in reading, even if I do fall asleep after 1 page!)

I’ve got a few minutes off the reference desk, so I’m going to go visit some more blogs. Keep up the good work everyone and have fun!

I know, I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again. I really want to start posting to this blog again (can’t believe I haven’t updated since June…). Thing is, I hate writing book reviews. Any suggestions? I’d like to share what I’m reading/have read, but I need a short format.

Let’s start with the past week or so. Here’s what I’ve finished/started.

The Ragwitch by Garth Nix – liked it a lot
Rose by Any Other Name by Maureen McCarthy – liked it way more than I was expecting to!
Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West by Avi (advanced reader copy) – kept my interest, but it was kind of boring at times. I don’t think I would have liked it all that much as a kid, and I’ve always liked historical fiction.

I’m currently reading Waves by Sharon Dogar (advanced reader copy). I’m liking this one so far, about 75 pages in.

Next 3 on my list: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and then The Disappeared by Gloria Whelan

Baby steps.