From One Book Lover

This week's library loot experience took me to a rarely-visited branch of my library system for a book not for myself. My husband David wanted to read a book by Eckhart Tolle, which was available at a branch of the library he passes in his travels every week. Apparently I never took him into that library, which I find hard to believe, but it could happen. (In a strange alternate universe, but still.) We resolved that issue immediately. I took a lap around the lovely little library, checking out the "new books" section, the audiobook shelves, and the "Friends of the Library Book Sale" shelves. My audible gasp caused at least one patron to turn toward me (sorry!), but as I reached for Arundhati Roy's new release, I couldn't help it. It's a 14-day book, so heaven help me finish it on time, but I'll give it the old college try. (Full disclosure: I began listening to The God of Small Things last year, but stopped after a very short tim...

Entire weekends of reading! Long nights of nothing but book time! It's summer! Woo hoo! Well, don't spill your lemonade, but this year's summer reading is starting off very slowly for me. You'd think that I'd have more than two book under my belt after three weeks of summer reading. Nope, just two. A whopping 461 completed pages. A fabulous 461 pages that includes a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, but still a paltry sum of pages and books. Oh, don't get me wrong: I'm reading. My nightstand reading stack is dwindling, somewhat. I am nearly halfway through Anna Karenina , and I can see the end of  Speaking From Among the Bones  (which I began months ago — yes, months). I'm just not tossing back the books at a breakneck speed as intended. I will continue to plug along, and pick up interesting books along the way. I won't break down, but I will limp along a little slower than anticipated. Wish me luck! What do you do when you experien...