April 2011 BookPage

Why is it that sometimes I'm totally unmoved, unmotivated by any literature and then other times, I'm overwhelmed by options???  Will I ever be able to read all I want to read?  Truly?

April 2011's BookPage is PACKED with interesting reads...  I'm amazed...

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives (Katie Couric)
Never Knowing (Chevy Stevens) - and Still Missing, if it isn't already on a list somewhere
The Night Season (Chelsea Cain)
Save Me (Lisa Scottoline)
Mystery (Jonathan Kellerman)
Cold Wind (CJ Box)
The Troubled Man (Henning Mankell)
Every Day by the Sun (Dean Faulkner Wells)
The Mediator (Meg Cabot)
When you Reach me (Rebecca Stead)
The Inheritance of Beauty (Nicole Seitz)
Making Toast (Roger Rosenblatt)
The Other Wes Moore (Wes Moore)
Low Country (Dorethea Benton Frank)
The Extra 2% (Johan Keri)
Verily, Verily: the KJV - 400 years of Influence & Beauty (Jon M. Sweeney)
My One & Only (Kristen Higgins)
The Uncoupling (Meg Wolitzer)
The Love of My Youth (Mary Gordon)
Night Road (Kristin Hannah)
Started Early, Took My Dog (Kate Atkinson)
The Map of True Places (Brunonia Barry)
The Dry Grass of August (Anna Jean Mayhew)
The Wilder Life (Wendy McClure)
A Covert Affair (Jennet Conant)
One Hundred Names for Love (Diane Ackerman)
Where She Went (Gayle Forman) - sequel to If I Stay

March BookPage

True to norm, I picked up the March issue of Books-A-Million's BookPage.  What isn't true to norm is I didn't get over here & add to my I-wish-to-read-list (like how I combined the 2???  So clever am I!).

Squeaking it in before month's end:

Almost Home by Pam Jenoff
His Other Wife (Deborah Bedford)
Cleaning Nabokov's House (Leslie Daniels)
Mr. Chartwell (Rebecca Hunt)
Exposed (Kimberly Marcus)
Bringing Adam Home (Les Standiford)
Undecorate (Christiane Lemieux)

Better late than never, right?

February 2011 BookPage

First glance thru this month's BookPage left me little to be excited about - but then, I was feeling rushed & stressed & in desperate need of a relaxing diversion.  Unfortunately, due to the rushed & stressed, I couldn't seem to get my mind diverted.

Fast forward to today: the first day in weeks I feel like I can truly relax, altho there is quite a bit still on my to-do-list.  The difference is I don't have looming & demanding deadlines tonight.  However, tomorrow is, indeed, another day.

So while I patiently waited for a video from last night's annual dinner (one of my distracting deadlines) to upload (it never did), I grabbed my BookPage from the in-box...  and promptly fell in love!

Many, many titles in this issue that have peaked my interest!  By the way, I'm fully aware these may be duplicates from other BookPages & To Read Lists.  ~sigh~

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Under the Mercy Trees by Heather Newton
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
How I Planned Your Wedding by Susan Wiggs & Elizabeth Wiggs Maas
Gone by Mo Hayder
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
Angel Sister by Ann H. Gabhart
Delirious by Daniel Palmer
The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Prayers & Lies by Sherri Wood Emmons
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
The Diviner's Tale by Bradford Morrow
J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski
Trapped by Michael Northrop

~sigh~  So many books, so little time...

January 2011 BookPage

Despite a nasty & relentless STUPID headcold, I've managed to get thru the January BookPage.  Not a long list this time, not sure what this means...  am I getting more selective with my selections???  Probably not.  Might be the mess-with-my-head meds!!!

The Organized & Inspired Scrapbooker (Smedley & Garvey)
Pictures of You (Caroline Leavitt)
The Lake of Dreams (Kim Edwards)
The Lying Game (Sara Shepard)
Your Creative Brain (Shelley Carson, Ph.D.)
Fall for Everything (Heather Seggel)

December BookPage

Such a busy month!  Holidays, birthdays, family visits...  I'm still chugging thru "Songs in Ordinary Time" so haven't started the 161 project yet, succumbed to temptation & downloaded a "I want to read this!" to Kindell, my Kindle, but have NOT, I promise-swear-cross.my.heart, started reading it yet.  All this to say, I picked up the December issue of "BookPage" and went thru it but am just now getting around to listing out mynew adds to the reading wish list:

The Forest for the Trees
This Year You Write Your Novel
The Secret Miracle: the Novelist's Handbook
Blackpool Mysteries series (Jordan Gray)
Morning Show Murders (Al Roker!)
Midnight Show Murders (Al Roker!)
The Recipe Club (Israel & Garfinke)
The Hollow (Jessica Verday)
The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman!)
The Language of Interior Design (Alexa Hampton)
Minimalism & Fashion: Reduction in the Post Modern Era
These Hidden Things (Heather Gudenkauf)
Rescue by Anita Shreve
An Object of Beauty by Steven Martin
A Season of Darkness by Jones & Gobbell
I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Deck the Halls/Christmas Thief (Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark)
How Did I Get Here? (Tony Hawk)

BookPage: November 2010 Issue

One of my favorite monthly rituals is to swing by Books-A-Million (the ONLY bookstore in my community!) to pick up their latest issue of  BookPage, which I read cover to cover.  And, therefore, my "to-read" list grows...

This month, I'm adding:

• Green Beauty Recipes by Julie Gabriel (although I'm a little leery about this one - heard enough "green washing" tales to be skeptical until further research is conducted)
• Green Interior Design by Lori Dennis
• Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Next Time You See Me by Katia Lief
• The Hidden by Bill Pronzini
• Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
• My Passion for Design by Barbara Streisand
• Style by Lauren Conrad
• One Day by David Nicholls
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• A Soft Place to Land by Susan Rebecca White
• The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
• Moonlight Mile by Dennis LeHane
• The Templar's Code by CM Palov
• Eighteen Acres by Nicolle Wallace
• The Neighbors are Watching by Debra Ginsberg
• Radiance by Alyson Noel
• I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
• Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
• The Confession by John Grisham

So many books...  so little time...