What I've been reading...

Finished:

• A Thousand Pardons by John Dee (liked it, but still...huh?)
• When the Sea is Rising Red
• The Sisters Grimm (first book--fun!!!)
• Zom-B (book 3)
• The 5th Wave
• Audiobook: The Night Circus (awesome!!!!)

Still Reading:

• Java for Dummies (still feeling dumb after reading)
• The Golem and the Jinni (loving it!!!!!)
• All manner of "How to Crochet" books (I can make a really neat string blob now.)
• Android Apps for Dummies 

A movie I actually enjoyed:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- really beautiful the way its filmed and the way music and words and pictures flow together. 

Currently reading.... 3 Books!

Yep. I'm reading 3 books right now. I'm totally reading only for sheer escapist pleasure and I'm reading what strikes my fancy at the moment.

Right now:

Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie. This is a book where I know exactly what's going to happen. That's why I'm reading it. I want to see the uppity social neo-Puritan in the story fall on his butt. I want to see the girl and the guy fall in love despite their obvious differences and to be able to let go of their baggage. I want the nice girl in the town to find her dreams. I will get what I want and I will vicariously enjoy their triumph and ups and downs. Escapist non-literature at its best.

Castle Corona by Sharon Creech. Again, I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen, but the journey is fun to go along with. This is a simple story with interesting little undertones.

Crown of Embers by Rae Carson. Just started this one... a sequel to the really cool book, A Girl of Fire and Thorns. I liked Fire and Thorns so much because the protagonist, Elisa, isn't a girl that needs saving. She is mentally strong, smart and not thin or pretty. An usual heroine in today's world indeed!

Okay... I've been reading a LOT and not writing about it :(

Yep, I've been slacking. Or rather, I've been dithering. Or maybe I've been procrastinating.

I love to read (duh), but sometimes, I'm devouring books to escape and I'm not taking the time to reflect on them as I should--to describe what they mean to me, how they changed me, reinforced me, repelled me or just made me feel happy. 

But, in the interest of disclosure and hopeful revisiting of what I've been reading, here's the run-down:

Audiobooks

Aloha From Hell

Casual Vacancy

Good Omens

Young Adult

Nobody

Inside Out

Outside In

Scorpio Races

Fat Angie

NonFiction

Weird Life
Various Gardening Books

Fiction
The Death of Bees
The new Flavia de Luce book

I'll try to write how I felt about these stories at a later date... :P