Every summer a group of women up at my cottage allows me to choose three books to add to their summer reading piles. I have jokingly dubbed myself the Supreme High Chooser for the summer bookclub and no one, even when I offered (and trust me, that was only once) to let others help choose, they agreed that I should continue as
Drum roll please.......
The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell
Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
How do you think I've done? Weigh in if you've read these. Feel free to tell me other books I should have chosen in their stead so I have a collection already started from which to choose next year.
You are a wonderful book-reading machine! Do you rent your books? I can't see how else other than the library that you can afford to do all that! I rent using Bookswim (like a Netflix of books) and i'm enjoying it. What are your thoughts?
ReplyDeleteNope. Don't rent them. I was lucky enough to work for a big publisher as well as a bookstore right out of grad school so managed to buy a lot with great discounts. Now I'm just a book glutton with no excuse although I do get review copies for free sometimes. Since I buy little else, I figure it all comes out in the wash. :-)
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