Life of a Doctor’s Wife asked me yesterday if I ever had books I couldn’t finish. I’ll admit that generally I will slog through a book if it is not just unbearable unbearable torture because I hate to leave a book unread and also, if I’m far enough into it, it’s generally worth it to me and my false sense of…
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University by Kevin Roose
8 of 10: The Unlikely Disciple, about a non-religious student’s semester at a religious university, easily kept me reading, but I couldn’t quite fall in love with it for a variety of reasons. I tend to be interested in books with unusual or unlikely premises, so this one, about Kevin Roose, a Brown student who decided to transfer to Liberty for one semester,…
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Thirty Four Weeks
This was the week it suddenly hit me that, oh my word; we’re having a real baby. Next month.
Ice Cream
I really like ice cream. A lot. I worked at Cold Stone for three years through high school, and I never got tired of ice cream. I’d bring some home almost every night and then have it for breakfast the next morning (I was the picture of good nutritional choices, clearly). So, on Saturday, when Friendly’s (the east coast equivalent…
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What I’m Going to Read: Round 12
The big winner this month was Life of a Doctor’s Wife who suggested The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’d read the book at the end of last year when Shelly kindly sent me a copy (which I read on the way home to two weeks of an empty house and was pretty sure I’d never sleep again because, wow, was…
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