Visited my house last night. Painting appears to be under control, for the moment. The color we picked for the living room is very much a color, for lack of a better word (read: whole house is pretty much cool beige tones – living room is now a mustard color.) The jury’s still out, but I think, once we get the furniture back (did I mention that’s happening on DECEMBER 9TH?) I think it will all work out.
It’s very scary that the husband and I managed to get through this project and actually pick entire rooms of things out. Like we’re grown-ups or something. When did that happen?
Anyway – segue from paint to books – I went on a nice, Amazon book buying binge last night. But it wasn’t my fault entirely – I had to pick out my new coffee maker and while I was getting a shipment anyway, it seemed like a shame not to include some books in it. Alison’s talking about her auto-buy authors, and I’m trying my first Alex Kava (although the book she recommended to try first is a re-release, and doesn’t come out till January. So I’ll wait patiently.) I pre-ordered a few books so I wouldn’t forget, but most of them don’t come out until after February. And I started to list my own auto-buy authors and realized that it’s pretty much books by the authors on my blog list and books recommended to me by authors on my blog list, which I think is kind of cool *g* plus Suz Brockmann, Sherilyn Kenyon, Tess Gerritson, Tami Hoag. Recently, I’ve been reading Nora Robert’s In The Garden series (did I mention these are the first Nora’s I’ve ever read?)
Anway, I’ve been making time for reading again, so I need a huge, towering tbr pile to grab from. It’s been my new guilty pleasure to grab a book at midnight and stay up late reading. Because, lately, the four year old had been waking up around midnight, so we kind of hang out through 3 am together – a lovely bonding experience.
Steph T.
I’m dying to read Red Lily by Nora. I enjoyed the Black Rose but I was annoyed that the ghost story wasn’t resolved yet. Oh well.
LOL Of course you had to buy books. What’s an amazon order without books? I also have to hit that $25 order to get free shipping EVERY single time. Seems a sin not to.
Michelle – did you read Blue Dahlia? I read Black Rose first – it’s always kind of interesting when I do that, but I like to see how she handled putting the BD story into the BR story – if that makes sense. And I think Red Lily comes out in a few days…
Amy – I agree. In fact, I think there are a few books I missed…I can just throw them in with the Christmas shopping orders
I’ve been loading up my Amazon wishlist for Christmas, but I’ve been pretty good about not actually buying anything.
I’m in one of those phases where I feel guilty about adding to my already huge TBR pile. Luckily that phaze won’t last long.
Oh – I totally forgot about the wishlist thign, Emma!! I set one up for the kid, and forgot all about me, me, me!:lol:
LOL@bonding! Happy reading doll! I just stocked up a couple weeks ago. Funny enough none were auto-buys