Oops.
I knew that I was running out of steam on this whole book thing, and to be perfectly honest, I don’t think I’m going to get to any goal that I’ve set out. I’m still going to keep track, but I’ve been falling way behind on my “schedule” of sorts, and I’m just needing more variety in entertainment these days. Not to mention, I got a Nintendo DS and I’m wanting to spend some time playing with it, and we’ve just been really busy in general. Anyways, here we go for May.
- STR Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
- GFT 5 Essentials For Lifelong Intimacy – Dr. James Dobson
- LIB Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert [audio]
- PBS The Veritas Conflict – Shaunti Feldhahn
- LIB Why Mars and Venus Collide – John Gray, PhD [audio]
- LIB How Starbucks Saved My Life – Michael Gates Gill [audio]
- LIB The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner [audio]
Yeah. Case in point. 4 audio books, 3 regular books. 5 non-fiction. One part is that I had some longer books this time around (most audio books were at least 11 hours) and I just spent more time doing other things, like reading magazines and stuff. Another part of it would be that I’m reading Getting Things Done which I thought would be a short read but turned out to be unbearably boring, and also the huge 1300-page tome of Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, which is really more of a reference than a book. I guess it was bound to happen, but hey, I made it almost 6 months with reading a lot. I’m currently up to 60 books, so that’s not too bad in 5 months and 5 days.
The books I loved last month were Eat, Pray, Love and The Veritas Conflict. Those two were hard to put down, but for very different reasons. Eat, Pray, Love was like a journey of a soul, and about finding yourself. It was just a great story. It definitely made me want to go to Italy and eat like a pig. The Veritas Conflict was a great thriller, and although I don’t really enjoy supernatural stuff, it didn’t matter. It was just plain good.
I don’t have anything bad to say about any of my books this month. I guess when you read less you don’t get as many crap books in. I’m still excited about some of the books in my “to be read” bookshelf, but less dedicated in reading them. There are too many facets to life to be stuck on just one. And maybe if I’m less pressured to read read read, I’ll have more time to ruminate on some of the non-fictions. We’ll see.
This month’s recommendations:
- Eat, Pray, Love
- The Veritas Conflict
- How Starbucks Saved My Life
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