Books a million?

8. Read 50 books (50/50) - completed

I finished "Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America," by Bill Geist, which my mom had picked up at a used book sale and I've been half-reading for about a month. Some of it was entertaining. I also finished "A Clockwork Orange," which was a little hard to get into because the narrator uses this slang that's half-Russian, half-made-up. And he uses it in every sentence. But I really, really liked the book -- a lot more than I thought I would.

And then I read "Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenger, who wrote The Time Traveler's Wife. I could read TTTW thirty times and love it even more each time, I think because I related so well to the story (I had a husband who time-traveled, didn't you know?) So I expected to relate equally well to this one, but as it turns out, I don't have an aunt who was my mother's twin who died and made me live in her flat in England with my twin. In any case, despite not being what I expected, I did like it.

30. Use my library card to take out 25 books (20/25) - in progress

I took out "Her Fearful Symmetry" and a book I picked up on a whim about a guy who works for a few months as a lettuce cutter on a farm with mostly migrant workers, in a poultry processing plant, and in the kitchen of an NYC restaurant.

I think that's it for the week -- didn't exercise. I did go down to the farmers market to get some peaches on Wednesday though. A few were bruised, because I tend to just let them give me whatever quart they want, but they were still delicious.