Thirty-three swoons
This weekend I finished my 5th book of the year, Thirty-three Swoons by Martha Cooley. It was strange, but interesting – I found it hard to relate to the characters, but I found that was largely because I didn’t agree with some of their choices, not because they were unappealing or anything. But now I do want to find a book on the perfume industry (fiction or non-fiction) because that aspect of the novel was really intriguing. I started Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult last night, which is good so far – I think I’m going to try Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro next, cause reading the back of the book makes me very curious – I can take that one along on the trip to Wintergreen. 
I’m having dinner tonight with my mom, who is up in Greensboro to see a client, so I’m driving over there before she heads back to Charlotte. And I’m meeting with some of the women at my church, cause I’m supposed to be helping plan the women’s ministry retreat/conference in March – I’m excited about being involved, but scared about a large time committment right now – we’ll see after tonight…
My friend Beth just started working part-time at this new place called Sociale, where you go in and can assemble entrees right there in their kitchen with help from their chefs, or you can just pick up stuff pre-assembled. I wanted to go to their opening Friday night when Beth started but was too tired (and no one to go with 
) – hopefully I’ll be able to go sometime in the next few weeks when Beth is working again – you should check it out!
Well, I wrote my comment on Thirty-Three Swoons (from reading that you’d finished it on your book list) while you were writing this, but you can read my comment below. hehe.
hehe – I agree, she really tied it all together at the end, with some unexpected stuff thrown in for a twist – it was really the doppelganger stuff that I could have done without – if she’d just had the dreams and put things together, maybe gotten the Seva background from the books she was reading, I feel like that would have satisfied my curiousity on the subject… but I did like her writing – have you read her other book? The Archivist? I might try looking for that one…
Yeah, I liked The Archivist, but . . . it’s about a mentally unstable librarian, so I don’t know how broad the appeal is. Chris Hubbs read it and didn’t love it.
mentally unstable librarian, eh?
hehehe
I’ve got quite a back-log of books, but I’ll keep my eyes open for that one at Ed’s (I just got Anita Diamant’s Good Harbor and a book of stories edited by Nick Hornby – with a story by COLIN FIRTH!!! yay!)