Updates

• Just finished 4 reviews!
  
  • The Shepherd by Ethan Cross (3.5 Stars)
  • This Life Is in Your Hands: One Family, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman (3 Stars)
  • Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott (Did Not Finish)
  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (4 Stars)
    
    
• Still VERY BEHIND with my other reviews

The Sugar Queen

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
 
Where She Went 

The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch

These Things Hidden 

The Kitchen Daughter

A Long Way Down
(Did Not Finish)
 
 
• Reading: Just started reading The Lens and the Looker by Lory Kaufman (review on 5/8/11 as part of book tour) and still reading Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff with the husband. Have about 70 pages off so hopefully will finish soon! We got busy watching Bones Season 5 and The Social Network instead... still fascinating and can't wait to find out how it ends. It was just released a few days ago on 4/26/11.

• Am about to watch the last Stieg Larsson's movie - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (haven't read the book). 

• Has anyone watched Water for Elephant? Is it better than the book? I don't know if I agree with the casting, but will reserve my judgment until I watch it (probably will wait for the DVD though - just like reading, I hardly re-watch movie, and I like that DVD has special features!) 

• Have you heard about the controversy about Three Cup of Tea? I am still trying to process the info (reading Three Cup of Deceits). I have to admit my initial reaction is disappointment... but I will wait to write about it until I can make up my mind. 

• Work is still keeping me busy... and it better warms up here soon! We had a couple of nice days with sun shining in April, but the rest of the month had been chilly (and snowed in one day?!) Makes such a difference when you wake up to a sunny day. It holds such promises. 

• Can't believe it's May already! So many books I want to read (just got a bunch of much anticipated books from the library, like 13 rue Therese, I am not a Serial Killer, Two Kisses for Maddy, The Weird Sisters and So Much Pretty - why do all the reserved books have to come in at the same time?) and so many other things I want to do (editing my personal photos from the last 5 years! cleaning up the house, decorate the house, going on day trips in small towns nearby when the weather is nicer...) and so many things I need to do (get 8 hours sleep, exercise, eat healthier and learn to cook so I can better control what we eat...) Okay I need to stop depressing myself! :)