It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

 

What I Finished Last Week Lipstick in Afghanistan by Roberta Gately Lipstick in Afghanistan doesn’t make any pretense of being factual and  it’s a darn good thing. The back cover promises it is “inspired by experiences ...more Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Don’t take anything in this book at face value; it’s all a farce of the highest order.  Either that or our main character and heroine is the...more How It All Began by Penelope Lively An elderly woman gets mugged. That’s how it all began...more Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau It is hard to read a book when you do not like the main character. At all.  And what if the book is written in some sort of odd Ulysses-ish ...more

What I'm Reading Now A Room With a View by E. M. Forster A lot of wonderful children's picture books  (reviews coming soon)

What I Received in the Mail Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

What are you reading today?!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

Odds and Ends

MAMA NEEDS SOME NEW SHOES
I did it. Late last night, when I was barely awake enough to type the numbers on my credit card, I went online and ordered a new iPad.

Indulgent. I already have a desktop, a large laptop, a medium-sized (pink) laptop, a mini, a Kindle, an iPhone, and an iPad.

But I love technology the way some women love shoes. And I stick to one pair of shoes.

I'm working on a post about it.

CYBILS ANNOUNCED
Yes, I'm that far behind. The Cybils were announced mid-February. I'm working on a post.

INDIE LIT AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Last Monday, the Indie Lit Awards were announced. I'm working on a post.

ANDIAMO IN ITALIA!
Incredible as it sounds, it looks very promising for a trip to Italy this summer. Mio marito has gotten his passport. I got a 99 cent app for learning Italian. I went to the bookstore last night and got three books on Italy. We are as good as there.

I'm working on a post about it.


BOOK REVIEWS
I have an enormous stack of books I've read and have yet to review. I'm working on a post.


DEWEY'S READ-A-THON
I hope to join for Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-Thon. It will be on Saturday, April 21st. I need to write a post about it.

BLOGGIESTA OLE!
Which all brings me to my final odd (or end): the need to blog. Next weekend is Bloggiesta and I plan to blog and blog and blog.

And get caught up on all of these things.

How about you? Will you be bloggiesta-ing next weekend? I hope that you will and that you will stop in and chat about good books or with blogging tips or about Italy even.

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Top Ten Books On My Spring To-Be-Read List

Top Ten Books I'm Looking Forward to this Spring...

 

Some Assembly Required

by Anne Lamott

(Happily, I've already read this one as an ARC.)

 

Paris My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light

by Amy Thomas

 

Storybound by Marissa Burt

 

No Cheating, No Dying:

I Had a Good Marriage.

Then I Tried to Make it Better

by Elizabeth Weil

 

Paris in Love

by Eloisa James

 

Insurgent

by Veronica Roth

 

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

by Dinty W. Moore

 

The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman

 

Lots of Candles,

Plenty of Cake:

A Memoir

by Anna Quindlen

 

Drop Dead Healthy

by A. J. Jacobs

The Beginner's Goodbye: A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

 

What I Finished Last Week Turn Right at Machu Picchu (review coming soon) The Lost City of Z (review coming soon)

What I Received in the Mail Last Week Five beautiful picture books from iPg:

What I'm Reading Now

What are you reading today?!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

Sunday Salon: Spring Break...in the Amazon?

 

I was sick over spring break.

(Thank you for that lovely "Awww!" I needed to hear that.)

Coughing. Aching. Chills.

So I was forced to do nothing this spring break but...read.

(Which is how I would have spent spring break anyway, right?

Albeit without the coughing, aching, and chills.)

For reasons that I cannot possibly ascertain, I spent my favorite reading hours this spring break 

in South America. First I traveled with Mark Adams as he retraced the steps of

Machu Picchu discoverer Hiram Bingham. Then I went off with City of Z explorer Percy Fawcett

across the Amazon jungle.

Hiram and Percy led us through "insatiable thirst, skull-splitting headaches, and uncontrollable shivering," as we were "spitting up mouthfuls of blood." We tramped through lands with tribes of natives who "captured prisoners...they either kept...forever or roasted them to devour in their banquets." Swimming in the waters of the Amazon were not only the feared piranhas, the so-called "vampire fish of Brazil," but the horrifying candiru, a creature that is known for lodging in human orifices. Some of us contracted espundia, which "destroys the flesh around the mouth, nose, and limbs, as if the person were slowly dissolving" and others  found maggots growing inside our open wounds.

Delightful, right?

Somehow I have survived all these horrors and,
though we never found the golden City of Z,
I am, happily, able to complete a sentence or two without incessant coughing.
Just in time to return to work tomorrow....