What I'm (For the Most Part Not) Reading

Hi Everyone!

Today we've got another little installment on what I've been reading (or, more accurately, not reading). Why am I having such a hard time getting into books lately? Is it permanent? Is the fertility stuff weighing too heavily on my mind? Am I too busy and it's hard to sit and relax and read? I don't know, but I used to loooooove reading, and I'm going to keep trying. Maybe some nice warm summer weather and some free time to lounge on our back patio will make a difference.

I'm still on my library kick, which may also be why I'm not making a huge effort to read a book all the way through if it doesn't catch my attention (I didn't pay for it, I don't feel as much of an obligation).

Here's how things went with my current stack of books:

• 29 Gifts, Cami Walker. My mom gave me this book on Mother's Day (how sweet of her is it to give me a gift on that day?) It's the only one in the pile I actually read. The writing/book itself was OK, but what I really liked was the idea behind it...that if you give gifts (doesn't have to be things that cost money) every day it will put you in a place of abundance and gratitude. It's a cool idea to consciously give a gift every day for 29 days...something I'd like to try. Pages read: All.
• Still Life With Chickens, Catherine Goldhammer. The subtitle of this book is 'Starting Over in a House by the Sea,' and, I don't know, I thought it would be about moving somewhere cool and home renovation and finding your way in a new world. But instead...it was about chickens. Which shouldn't have surprised me, granted, but there was way too much chicken for me to keep reading...I just wasn't that interested. Pages read: ~50 and then I skimmed the next 50, but there was no end to the chickens in sight.
• Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky. I thought I'd really like this book, but it ended up being kind of dry. Pages read: 35.
• Stuart: A Life Backwards, Alexander Masters. Really cool writing and a really cool set-up (the narrator is telling someone's [Stuart's] biography, but from when he met Stuart back to Stuart's childhood, so you have to stick around in theory and see what happened to make Stuart so messed up). I'm not sure why I put this down...maybe I just found it depressing reading about someone who was homeless, in and out of prison, had such a hard life, that's what this book was about and I need shiny happy things right now, I think. Pages read: ~100.
• The Carrie Diaries, Candace Bushnell. My BFF recommended this book and I usually love what she recommends, but this I just couldn't get past a certain point. Too frivolous, I think, although I usually don't shy away from frivolous if I'm in the right mood. I will say I read the first few chapters relaxing with a glass of wine and that was nice, but after that first night, could not get into it. Pages read: 144.
• The Women, T.C. Boyle. Didn't even get to this and it's time for my library books to go back...maybe I'll check it out again. Pages read: 0.

As always, reading recommendations are welcome. :)

XO