Gift Card Day

I went to B&N today and spent the gift card that C gave me!! Loads of fun! Here’s what I came home with:
1. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde – It’s the first book in his Nursery Crime Series.
2. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare – I read this book in middle school and recall absolutely loving it. It is a Newberry award winner, too. Misha and I were talking about The Crucible the other night, thanks to Jeopardy!, and it made me remember this book. I got it to read again and find out if it is still as great as I remember!
3. A collection of Alexandre Dumas novels – The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. – I have read The Three Musketeers, but not the other two. I have seen all of the movies and have wanted these books for quite some time.
4. The Canterbury Tales – Another collection that I have wanted for a long time!
5. Two gardening magazines
6. A Mother’s Day Tote – which I am not sure I am really going to give to my mother, or keep for myself. I LOVE tote bags!

I’d say it was a good day!

Barnes & Noble

For housesitting for her, C bought me a $50 gift card to Barnes & Noble – She said it was to support my “book fetish!”

Something Rotten. . . it’s done!

I finished Something Rotten. It was really good. I think out of the four books The Well of Lost Plots was my favourite. However, this one was really good and had some excitement in it. I am going to be taking a short break from Thursday because the next book is still in hardback, which I usually would choose, but my other four are trade paper size and I like uniformity more than hardback!

I am not sure what book is next, I have a lot of crafts I need to be working on, so all books might take a back seat for a short time!

Something Rotten

All those books at home to be read and what did I do?  Went to BAM and bought the next Thursday book, Something Rotten!  Oh yeah, it has Hamlet in it!  And oh yeah, it’s good!  The good news is that there is only one more Thursday Next book out and Fforde has 2 others in the Nursery Crime series about detectives Jack Spratt and Mary-something.  So the end is in sight and I will be able to give attention to others who are equally (okay maybe not equally) deserving!

The Well of Lost Plots

Sunday I stayed in bed and finished reading The Well of Lost Plots by Jaspar FForde. LOVED IT!!!! I am telling you if you have not read The Thursday Next series yet you need to! This particular one took me a little longer to get into (like 50 pages) but then I was in love again! Fforde’s mind is just mysterious – and I loved his explanation of why some folks use -our and some use -or, i.e. humour vs. humor.

I think next I will finish Dean Koontz’s Velocity.