Jonesing for Books

I'm book broke. There is no fundage in my coffers for new books and it's making me cranky. There are lonely books sitting in the Amazon warehouses just waiting to be adopted by me. My shopping cart is full. I feel the need, the need for new books.
What's a girl to do?
Also I'm on the outs with my local public library. They say I'm missing a book, THAT I NEVER CHECKED OUT. I'm a librarian, I know how the systems work. I also am very vigilant about any books that I check out. I've never heard nor seen this particular book, and will be forced to pay for it if I would like to continue using the library.
And there are holds waiting for me. ARGHHH!
The only hope on the horizon is the Scholastic Book Fair. I regularly run the whole shebang at my elementary school, and it's only a couple of weeks away.
Sure I'll buy a few books and maybe get a short term fix, but I'll also get my fix by selling all those books to the kids too.
I just love to unfasten those big metal book cases and swing them open and see all those fresh new Scholastic books. I'll set up all the Christmas books, the Junie B Jones multi-packs, and the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book display. There will be books for only $1 and maybe a few YA books for only $5.
I can't wait.
Until then I will keep filling my Amazon Shopping Cart and pretend that I'm just one-click away from the UPS man bringing me a giant heavy box filled with books.

I've changed my look

Ta Da!!
Wait don't go anywhere it's still me!
I've stepped out of the 2009 Blogger template.
I know. It's about damn time.

Movie vs. Book

It's good. It's really, really good. I'm at 25% on my Kindle and it's worth going on.
What it really deceptive about all the movie trailers and posters is that they seem to focus on the futuristic bits of the book, so I thought it was totally a sic-fi story, but I don't think the book it that way at all. I'm only up to the 1970's story, so I've still got all the future stuff ahead of me.
What is disappointing is that the movie has been officially been called a flop. This opening weekend it only made $10.3 million!
What a bummer. Sometimes being a complicated book, and advertising a movie as such, will damn a movie. I'll see the movie eventually, but I'm one of those silly people who HAVE to read a book before I even think of seeing the movie.

Could Atlas

I know it wasn't on my last list of books to read, but this book is so in my face I feel that I have to read it so I know what is going on.
So I am going to attempt to read Cloud Atlas.
I don't  think it's really my kind of book, but I'm gonna try.
Don't you just hate it when a book is everywhere and you can't escape it? I feel guilt and pressure to read it. Is that what the media outlets are trying to do? Am I falling victim to advertising?
Oh the horror!

November Reads

So there are a lot of books in my To-Be-Read pile, but sometimes if I make a list for the next month I am more likely to actually do the reading instead of just willy-nilly picking off the top of the pile.
So for November I would like to read:

Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl

The Complete Claudine by Colette

Winter of the World by Ken Follett

Click Millionaires by Scott Fox

Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson

Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan

The New Moon With the Old by Dodie Smith

I know some of those are HUGE books, but it's just a goal. I might start some and not be able to finish, but it's a list to begin from. I've got to dream big.

So many books, so little time.

Among Others - Jo Walton

OMG! I cannot even tell you how much I loved this book. It just hit that sweet spot with all the little things that make a book great to me. There was a crazy mother, an unknown father, boarding school, a mysterious death, and magic.
At first I was a little put off by reading the back cover and seeing that fairies were involved in the story. I am not a big fan of fairies, but it was done so well that the fairies were not even that big a part of the story. It's more like a faint tinge of fairies and magic.
I am a big believer in magic, but of the sort that is more mystical and realistic and twists in with fate and destiny vs. spells and potions.
The idea I got was that older, more used objects contain magic, which I agree with, while new things and places are devoid of magic. The older a thing is the more magical it can be.
There is a running theme of traveling while Mori goes back and forth to school, the library, her father's home and her aunt's home. She meets so many people and tries to figure out where she fits in without her twin sister.
Through out the whole book Mori devours books and keeps a running commentary on all the great and not so great ones. It's amazing to see a girl's love of reading intermingle with her life.
Loved it loved it loved. I will probably have to buy this one since I got it from the library.
READ THIS.

Ohhh A Kitten Reading!

It doesn't get any cuter than this.