Current Reads

I've been reading In The Forest by Edna O'Brien, which was a Book Crossing catch I picked up a while ago. The book started out pretty interesting for the first chapter or so, but after that it got confusing.  It's not a very long book so I'll finish it, but I took a break from it today to read some of The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, by Elizabeth Berg. I had been watching the news, listening to the talks about the government shutting down, news from Iraq, updates on the tsunami... I needed something light-hearted to take me away for a bit. The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, is just the right book to do that. I only read the first chapter because I think I need to finish In The Forest first. I have friends who will keep trudging on reading a book they don't like because they hope it will get better or they don't like the idea of not finishing something. I used to think like that and it would keep me from reading at all because I'd not pick up another book even though I didn't go on to finish the one I'd been reading before. But, not too long ago I overheard two women talking in a book store and one of them said that '...life is too short and there are too many good books out there to keep reading something you don't enjoy!' Makes good sense to me!