Monday Memes

 

Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.  We share books that we've read over the past week and those we hope to read this week.  

Last Week:

I finished Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey and am almost completely through the delightful I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

This Week:
I plan to finish up I Capture the Castle and try to get to both Ill Wind and Life of Pi.  I need to start flying through some books - it's been a slow reading year for me!

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Mailbox Monday is a touring meme where book bloggers share their bookish acquisitions from the week prior.  It is hosted this month by Anna at Diary of an Eccentric.

This weekend I was super-excited because not only did I have tix to The Hunger Games movie, buuut it was also my local library's bi-annual book sale!  Holy guacamole did I make out like a bandit this year - check out my awesome finds:

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Angels on Toast by Dawn Powell
• Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (Yay!  I started this book at one point but had to give it back to the library before I could finish it.)
• The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
• The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart 
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (such a great book!)
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
• A Tree Grows in Brooklin by Betty Smith

I actually went back a second day and got even MORE books (for 25 cents apiece) but haven't taken a picture of those goodies.  Seriously, I am completely out of shelf space!