Sixth Week Wrap and The New Haul

   It's been a good reading week; though not all the reading was good. I am incredibly pleased with the overall selections of the last haul. I am also pleased because they were all free reads. Yay, Victorville City Library!
   This new week brings a new haul. I choose a few extra books feeling flush and triumphant, and a little ambitious again, off the completion of last week's books. I also chose extra because, like castor oil (never tasted it, but I've read that it's not so good), some things when they must be tasted are better tasted quickly. In plain language, reading two more Hailey Abbots in quick succession is more palatable to me than knowing there's one more waiting for me. (Cue the Jaws soundtrack and a whispered prayer to the Patron Saint of Library Readers that there aren't any more lurking in another reader's hands just waiting for me when I go back.)

*Off to finish a (non-library) book before I pick up the kids. Finish the Wrap and the Library Picks when I return.  :)*

Aaaand, I'm back.

   This week's reading reminded me of how much I love to read. There are so many things you learn while reading. The greatest thing about reading is the unlikely information you find in the unlikeliest places. You can read junk and still learn a new word, or read fiction and learn some obscure piece of trivia. My husband consistently asks how I know certain things, and my answer, invariably, is that I just know it, I read it somewhere. Nonfiction, obviously, imparts lots of knowledge. Nonfiction also poses its own unique challenge; in the presence of "authoritative" factual information the reader must sift through the author's perspective and objective. Thus, one book leads to another. One book leads to a raft of knowledge and many divergent paths of self education. (I know my metaphors are mixed, sometimes I do that.)
   I was also inspired to write about my love of words today. It happened while adding to my Words Page. I was adding hobnob (a word I always liked) and learned its etymology (dictionaries are fun!). That was all it took to excite and inspire me and I was off. Once again, I found myself being introspective inspite of myself ;).
   Enough of that. On to this week's favorite and The Haul.

This week's favorite:

A Useful Woman The Early Life of Jane Addams by Gioia Diliberto because I learned a lot, it made me think, it included trivia (what is a corduroy road?) and used words like higgledepiggledy [sic].

The Haul:
Fiction:

The Architect by Keith Ablow
murder suicide by Keith Ablow
Delusion by Peter Abrahams

Nonfiction:

920s
California's Stately Hall of Fame by Rockwell D. Hunt
Tudor Portraits Success and Failure of an Age by Michael Foss

921s
Open An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
Christina Aguilera by MaryJo Lemmens

General
The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln by Anthony Gross


Teen Fiction:

Getting Lost with Boys by Hailey Abbott
The Secret of Boys by Hailey Abbott
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Flight by Sherman Alexie


Children's Fiction:

Skellig by David Almond
The Secret School by Avi

Hey! I just learned how to link my posts. Cool beans!! Now if they're linked, then they've been read and reviewed.