My mother has a Joy of Cooking dated around 1952, and given to her as a wedding present that year. It's falling apart at the seams, but I covet it anyway.

meara, I got my brother an out of print art book from Powell's listed a s "good." It was in impressive condition. You could only tell it wasn't new because the plastic dustjacket was scratched the way they get after a bit of normal handling.

bookclub was last night and after reading all day just to finish, I made it and we discussed, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim.

disturbing. also? it left us all with more questions than it answered about the world of the book and the scial rules and norms.

I didn't hate it, but I will sell the book.

On the way home I started reading Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie, which I picked up at a used bookstore this weekend. I finished it today and really liked it. I am gonna pass off two of my Crusie's to a friend and hopefully get her reading some new and different things.

The next book for bookclub is A Gracious Plenty by Sherri Reynolds.

I think the next book for me is gonna be a non-fiction about raising boys in a single mother home.

Just finished reading “Spirits in the Wires,” and I have joined the ranks of those who were disappointed with this book. Aaron Goldstein was a satisfyingly vicious little villain before his tour de force as a major player, and his sudden change of heart was not sufficiently explained to me. Because Suzi “believed in him”? Oh please. It read as if Aaran did what he did only because the plot demanded it. I can hear this character screaming, “NO, I didn’t wanna go to the Wordwood. I wanted to stay home, steal more promo stuff and keep writing scathing reviews about everybody I dislike!”

“Forests of the Heart” featured a petty bad guy longing for revenge and power, but in this case, I felt as if I spent enough time in his head to understand how it came to be that he changed his mind, and I believed it when he decided at the end to give it all up, trying to help.

That was the reaction I had too, Katerina. In addition to the feeling that I'd read this story before, but with characters I was more invested in.

Amazon has The Grand Tour : Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality by Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede available to order and with a release date of September 1st!

Thought that you all might like this one:

Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

I'm "Cry The Beloved Country" which strikes me as freakily fitting.

They have a lot of books in that quiz. I haven't seen dupes yet -- I'm Alice In Wonderland.

It's good to get a book I own.

Les Miserables

Great.