It's been awhile! I have read quite a few books recently that never made it to the blog. I am reading The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall and I love it. I really enjoy books that take place outside of the US because they are always so rich in texture and so beautifully descriptive. All of the characters have their demons and the book contains great loss and amazing strength.

I haven't been reading ANYTHING lately. I feel so terrible about this. I planned to read this past weekend while I was house sitting, but the television was like a vortex. I could not stop watching cable. I watched so much crap. Seriously, I watched the Girls Next Door. I really should have been reading. Here is to reading in the new year!

I finished The Man of my Dreams yesterday. I really liked this book. My friend Emily read it and thought I would identify with the main character. Well, she was correct. The unfortunate thing is that the main character has some serious flaws (fear of relationships, difficulty accepting happiness, and so on). Sadly enough, I could totally identify with her. There is a part at the end that really resonated with me:

"I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and because I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? That possibility, that I was intimidated by getting what I wanted, is the hardest one for me to consider, which might mean it is the likeliest." page 266

I think that most of us can identify with this quote. I think there are always things that we hold off on doing. Reading this book definitely gave me some real food for thought. I would recommend this book.

Our Holiday BAMF's book club was a ton of fun, we were spreading merriment and cheer like no other! We did our annual book exchange and I ended up with Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard. So far its an amazing book with such vivid depressing imagery. Its fascinating how the author writes several chapters from the giraffe's point of view. The book is very dark and the author enables you to visualize the depression and despair of the characters and the country.