Reading material

Sherman's Books is a really great little book and gift store in Bar Harbor (and Freeport and Camden.) I like to get something local in the way of reading material when I go somewhere, usually a cookbook and something spooky. This time I also got the new Linda Greenlaw, which I've been dying to read.  Books are way cheaper in the U-S.

Waah Waah Waaah!

In a nutshell:

Waah waah waah! Mommy is mean!

Waah waah waah! I'm not as rich as everyone thinks I am!

Waah waah waah! No takes me seriously as an actress because of Daddy!

Waah waah waah! My part in "Scary Movie 2" was mostly cut out!

Waah waah waah! People think I'm a whore just because Dean and I were both married when we hooked up! And I have absolutely no compassion for his ex wife, even though I stole her husband!

Though I must admit... it was kind of interesting, in a trashy, National Enquirer/People magazine kind of way. And I finished it, which is more than I can say for Love In The Time of Cholera.

I Read a LOT in 2007

75 books this year. That's not bad, considering how much time work and the Boy take up. I figure I manage to read as much as I did in 2007 because I read a lot of books I really liked, which always go much faster. That, and the fact that you can read while sitting or lying down.


Here they are:

1) Star Sullivan - Maeve Binchy
2) The Curve of Time - M.Wylie Blanchet
3) Missing Mom - Joyce Carol Oates
4) My Antonia - Willa Cather
5) The Tent - Margaret Atwood
6) A Place In France: An Indian Summer - Nigel Farrell
7) The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson
8) Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
9) Sleeping With the Enemy - Nancy Price
10) Incubus - Ann Arenberg
11) Pirate's Passage - William Gilkerson
12) She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
13) Petticoat Whalers - Joan Druett
14) The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor - Sally Armstrong
15) Empire Falls - Richard Russo
16) Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
17) Lovers and Gamblers - Jackie Collins
18) Diary of a Key West Innkeeper - Susan Jinbo
19) Ghost Stories of St. Petersburg - Tim Reeser
20) Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill
21) House of Spirits and Whispers - Annie Wilder
22) Diary of a Key West Innkeeper - Susan Jinbo (for the second time)
23) Ghosts of Key West - David L. Sloan
24) Ragged Islands - Don Hannah
25) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
26) Papa: Hemingway in Key West - James McLendon
27) Fish Out of Water - John Payzant
28) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
29) The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
30) Among the Shadows - LM Montgomery
31) View From A Kite - Maureen Hull
32) The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
33) Blaze - Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
34) Ghosts on the Coast of Maine - Carol Olivieri Schulte
35) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling
36) Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows - JK Rowling
37) The Custodian Of Paradise - Wayne Johnston
38) Mrs. Mary and Others: Women of Barrington - Hattie A. Perry
39) The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton - Kathryn Hughes
40) Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast - Bill Richardson
41) Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
42) Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
43) Martha Gellhorn: A Life - Caroline Moorehead
44) Definitely Not Martha Stewart - Janice Wells
45) Slipknot - Linda Greenlaw
46) Strange But True - John Robert Colombo
47) Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair - Laurie Perry
48) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
49) Lighthouse Legacies: Stories of Nova Scotia's Lightkeeping Families - Chris Mills
50) Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
51) The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
52) Spooky Canada - SE Schlosser
53) House of Spirits and Whispers - Annie Wilder (for the second time)
54) The Ghost Next Door - Mark Alan Norris
55) Dark Woods, Chill Waters - Marcus LiBrizzi
56) Nantucket Hauntings - Blue Balliett
57) The Ghosts of Nantucket - Blue Balliett
58) The Hindi-Bindi Club - Monica Pradhan
59) French Women Don't Get Fat - Mirielle Guiliano
60) Haunted Island - Holly Mascott Nadler
61) Late Nights On Air - Elizabeth Hay
62) Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
63) October - Richard B. Wright
64) The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
65) La Sagouine - Antonine Maillet
66) A Year In the Maine Woods - Bernd Heinrich
67) The Probably Future - Alice Hoffman
68) The Dirt On Clean - Katherine Ashenburg
69) O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
70) The Outport People - Claire Mowat
71) Local Girls - Alice Hoffman
72) To Everything There Is a Season - Alistair MacLeod (originally a short story, but this was in book form, so I counted it as a book)
73) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
74) Astrid and Veronika - Linda Olsson
75) An Audience of Chairs - Joan Clark

A Good Book

I finished this a few days ago. Different, but very interesting and totally engrossing.

I can't wait for the last Harry Potter!

What I've Been Reading

The Lovely Bones - I just finished this about 10 minutes ago. I couldn't put it down.

Ragged Islands - The pick for bookclub tonight. Reminded me a bit of "The Stone Angel" by Margaret Laurence. Set in the Maritimes, partly in Shediac and Moncton. I also raced through this one.

Lullabies For Little Criminals - I was forced to read this for bookclub, and it's a good book, but very hard to read. It's about a young girl trying to grow up with only a moron junkie of a father to raise her, and there's foster homes, drugs, and lots of other fun stuff. I find this kind of thing hard to read since I had the Boy.

I Just Finished Reading This And I'm Still Teary-Eyed

This is one of my favourite books of all time.

I can't believe a man wrote it.

The pic is a beach in Wellfleet, where Dolores saw the dead whale. I insisted we stop there last year while we were driving through Cape Cod, just because of the book.