Summer is a great time to get lost in a novel, and it's always interesting to hear what others are reading, too. Some stick to a single genre, and others like a wide variety of stories. While reading Jo-Lynne's blog this morning, I learned that Jennifer, Managing Editor over at 5 Minutes for Books, is hosting a carnival: What's on your nightstand? What a great way to learn about great or not-so-great reads!
My sisters, niece, and I were at our favorite book store yesterday at North Lake Tahoe. I was remarking to them how much I love to shop for books. I gauge my interest on the title, cover design, author's credits, etc. And I have a confession: I love to open a paperback novel and just smell the pages of the fresh newsprint. To that end, my sister once gave me a joke gift. She shredded a page of an old, old book and dropped several remnants into an inexpensive blue perfume bottle, and then she presented me with "Eau de Paperback." Clever, no? That was well over a dozen years ago, and that perfume bottle still sits amidst other lovely, expensive parfums on my vanity!
Interestingly, I love to shop for books more than I love reading them. While I certainly am capable of burying my nose in a book until it is done, I find that what I am doing at this very second, i.e., spending time on my computer, is preferred. In any case, I am enjoying a book right now, one that I am taking my time to read.
I'm reading Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger, who also wrote The Devil Wears Prada. Here's the book's description on amazon.com:
"Bette Robinson is a twentysomething Emory graduate who shunned her parents' hippie ideals in favor of a high-paying yet excruciatingly boring job at a prestigious investment bank. One day, after a particularly condescending exchange with her boss (who sends her daily inspirational e-mails), Bette walks out on her job in a huff. After a few weeks of sleeping late, watching Dr. Phil and entertaining her dog Millington, Bette's uncle scores her a job at an up-and-coming public relations firm, where her entire job seems to revolve around staying out late partying and providing fodder for clandestine gossip columns. What follows is one episode after another of Bette climbing up the social ladder at the expense of her friends, family, and the one guy who actually seems worth pursuing."
The main character is certainly part of a younger jet set than I, but the pace of that lifestyle is both exhilerating and exhausting! I think you'd like this one.
I'm heading home from Lake Tahoe today, and I'll be back to work tomorrow. I've so enjoyed my trips to Virginia and to the Sierras!
And on we go.
Wow did you write your little intro paragraph about me ;-).. It sure felt like it! I love to shop for books more than I actually read them, I love the smell of a new book and love to pick up new books because I had heard that the author was really good, or I liked the design, etc. Glad to see I am in good company :-)
Posted by: Lindsay | July 29, 2008 at 01:19 PM