Currently reading...and reading...and reading...and reading...

     I love, love, love a good book, and one of my favorite things to do is go hang out at the book store and peruse the little lovelies in person.  I am old school all the way when it comes to books.  I want the real deal and if possible, in hard back, but they're getting harder and harder to find unless you buy them immediately, and even then some come out in paperback.  Sadly, I've gotten into a bad habit about buying a book and getting about half way through it, and then find myself in the bookstore cheating on my current book and upgrading to a shinier newer more exciting livre du moment and forget about my sad little half read novel waitin to be attended to!  I do this all the time, and it must stop I tell you.

So currently reading and reading and then switched...

Quiet by Susan Cain
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Good book, well at least the part that I read, I probably got distracted by talking to people at the book store about the latest must have's and can't live without literature of the moment!  I am one of those people who can't stop talking, especially if I'm talking about books!

to this...

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

A book about Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley (love the name Hadley) where Hadley who was practically a cougar at the age of 28 and gets all romantical with Ernest who is cray, cray, but this is early Ernest, just back from the war Ernest, so he's sexy cray cray, like you want to take care of him and go to Paris with him, and just watch him write, and go listen to some smooth jazzzzzzz...

and got distracted by this crazy summer read
Gone Girl by Gilliian Flynn, which by the way I actually finished...
on to...
Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith
a memoir of anxiety...

This book is a hoot and a memoir which is my personal favorite kind of guilty pleasure, well I have only read 100 pages of it, but this is what hooked me...if you have anxiety, or know someone who does, you can totally relate...

I am anxious.  The anxiety makes it impossible to concentrate, I will make an unforgivable mistake at work.  Because I will make an unforgivable mistake at work, I will be fired.  Because I will be fired, I will not be able to pay my rent.  Because I will not be able to pay my rent, I will be forced to have sex for money in an alley behind Fenway Park, I will contract HIV.  Because I will contract HIV, I will develop full-blown AIDS.  Because I will develop full-blown AIDS, I will die disgraced and alone...From freeform anxiety to death-by-prostitution in eight short steps...


and onto more serious stuff that I was compelled to finish before the movie came out...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

It's basically difficult russian names...dancing, vodka, vodka, vodka...riding on trains, dancing, vodka, vodka, vodka...people speaking french yet they are Russian...what? Naughty rebellious Anna, sexy Vronsky, dancing, vodka, vodka, vodka...well you get the picture, and I was only 131 pages in...
but, it's 953 flippin pages...and I went to see the movie anyway


then distracted by and currently reading 
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes...
Source: bilbary.com via Caitlin on Pinterest

I'm still reading this, and love the writing, really gorgeous stuff, but I'm desperate to get this one

Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

It's about the hot mess that is the Church of Scientiology and all their wackadoos, and I love a great non fiction, especially when it involves wackadoos and famous people involved with said wacky behavior!


I really need to by a book about finishing what I started!

Posted by Maureen@CheekyinBlue

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