Keep polishing the stocking drawer, dear. Anything to keep you from the horror of lessons.

Oh, yes. Do stay away from the lessons!

So, I've been up for over an hour. I have a note for my body.

Dear Body,

I appreciate that you're feeling better, but did we really need to be up at 4:15 a.m.?

No love,

vw

I was always that kid that woke up an hour early just to read in bed before school. My entire life, "reading" was my number one hobby. And then law school, and then kids, and the internet actually, sort of sucked up all my reading time.

Joe ordered a Kindle for me for Christmas and I just got it yesterday. So far I really like it but I'm sort of at as loss as to what I should read. (I asked on Twitter and LJ and - shocking since so many of my friends online are readers/writers - I got no suggestions.)

So - what should I read on my Kindle? I'm open to just about anything.

What are some of your old favorites? If it were me, I'd jump in with Austen or Faulkner or Atwood or Alcott or the Anne of Green Gables series...someone I've missed.

As far as recent stuff...I've enjoyed Eat, Pray, and Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger...um, wow. I think those are the only non-school related books I've read in the last year. That's sad!

Oh, wait, I also read Religiously Transmitted Diseases by Gungor, which you might enjoy and nod your head mightily at.

Stephanie, there are so many options I wouldn't know where to start. What kind of books do you like to read? If I had a Kindle I would probably use it to read The New York Times as well as books.

vw, I'm sorry you didn't sleep. I was sleep challenged again too. Good luck staying awake today.

Yeah I'm mostly thnking about recent stuff. It seems like we talk a lot of books here but of course I remember nothing now.

It's hard to rec when I'm not sure what kinds of books you like, Stephanie. I'm reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghost right now and LOVING it -- it's short stories, and it's not all horror, it's more a combination of horror and fantastic fiction, and every story so far has just been fabulous. A couple of them really melancholy, rather than scary, and very sharply written.

Or you could give Coraline or The Graveyard Book a try, and get on the Neil Gaiman train.

For not-horror, not-genre, I'd also recommend The Time-Traveler's Wife, and I think you'd also like Jodi Picoult -- a couple of her books have protagonists that are either lawyers or the plot has something to do with the law. Sort of thinky women's fiction. I loved Plain Truth and My Sister's Keeper (although the last made me sob).

I'd second (well, third) The Time Traveller's Wife, and I'd also rec Cloud Atlas and The End of Mr Y. And Lost in a Good Book.

Windsparrow and I finally bought and read Rock and Roll Never Forgets by some woman named Deborah Grabien. It was pretty good.

Now I get to go to the office and wear shirt and tie for the dog and pony show for our biggest corporate customers.

I am off to staffing services to talk about potential positions for me at the institute. Hope that goes well... I'm wearing a suit and mascara and everything!