the san francisco public library book sale is coming up soon. ok, it’s not for 2 months. but let’s be honest, that’s pretty soon. unfortunately, i still have piles and piles of books collected over the last year to wade through. some purchased at the sale last year. some bought elsewhere, some received from kim’s mom’s advance reader’s copies. my lack of making a dent in this collection is shameful. in the past 2 days though i’ve either read or partially read 9 of them. my technique is to read the first chapter, if it doesn’t entice, i skim the middle just to check and then read the last couple pages. at this point there’s almost no way i’m going to want to go back and read the whole thing and, honestly, it probably wasn’t worth the time anyway. ‘done!’, i cry gladly and toss the book aside to move on to the next. i managed to go through like 5 in this fashion on sunday before getting hooked on one–“the candy shop war” by brandon mull. he came to my mom’s elementary school and talked to the kids last spring and the book is set in colson, ca. a town which doesn’t exist but is set somewhere in contra costa county anyway–someone reads the contra costa times and at one point they go to visit a grandmother on sunday in walnut creek. sweet, i say, my digs are being represented.
the one i actually read cover to cover yesterday was “light of the oracle” by victoria hanley. it wasn’t bad for a YA fantasy novel.
i uploaded some more pictures from my beach trip since my mom got hers developed. and shockingly there were two pictures of me. ‘me me me,’ i say, ‘here i am.’
