Recent Reads

Current mood: mellow

First thing this morning, I went to Office Depot to buy printer ink and fax my real estate contracts to Andy. Then Mom came over and we ran errands and had lunch at Denny's.

After she and I went our separate ways, I got some long-overdue routine maintenance done on my Jeep. Chuy told me to go to EZ Lube, because Luis works there. We've known Luis and his sister, Daicy, since they were children. Their uncle is a notorious drug dealer and Luis was an addict for a few years. He seemed clean when I saw him today, but I didn't want to embarrass him by asking him about it.

I realized that I haven't talked about the books I've read lately, so I thought I'd take the opportunity now.

I recently finished The A-List by Zoey Dean that a student lent me. I really enjoyed this book - neglected everything all day in favor of Anne, Cam, Sam, and Ben. I've already gone to Amazon.com to see if there are any sequels. There are five volumes already! Woot! This series is my new guilty pleasure and I've already started going around to random teenagers and recommending they read it. I told Erika that she could easily have written this series, what with its mentioning Prada this and Gucci that every other page and the high school setting. She was working on this great book that she shared with us in writing group that would fit in perfectly with the audience who reads this type of sudsy stuff (um....such as myself!).

I'm also going through a bunch of books that Erika lent me. The Cinderella Rules was fluffy, if poorly written, fun but I think I would like its sequel Dear Prince Charming better. Evidently Erika is a big Janet Evanovich fan, because she handed me about five Stephanie Plum novels (One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score, and High Five). Deception Point, by Dan Brown is next up, but I find myself preferring to read Mereille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat. Because of my illness and other reasons, I lost about 20 pounds but I can see that they are creeping back on and I'm trying to find a way of eating that I can live with, ya know? American-style eating of huge portions of sub-standard food is no longer adequate. Today's breakfast was a donut and coffee, lunch was a Denny's Grand Slam (two pancakes, two eggs, two sausages, two slices of bacon) and coffee, and dinner was another donut. See anything wrong here?!