I am happy to announce that I am flying to Birmingham tomorrow. I am then going to be picked up by my loverly gal pal,Mz Librarian. Yep, spur of the moment trip and I chose Alabama. I'm very excited because 1. it has been forever since I've been to Alabama and 2. it has been forever and a day since I've seen the Mz. On another happy note, she has dogs.

Martin, back from his four day extravaganza in Vegas is going to go to Denver for a day and then hopefully remembers to pick up the hold I have at the library on Sunday. He asked for a good book to read. I gave him The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, from which he demured. So I have given him my over 10 year old copy of Donna Tartt's The Secret History. I have read this book three times. It is one of the few books that I have ever read more than once. The others that I can remember are Love in the Time of Cholera and Pride & Prejudice (of course). I have read Anne of Green Gables about ten times, but that's in a category all by itself. So, he scoffed at the Donna Tartt book. Probably because it didn't have :
*aliens
*spaceships
*alternate historical happenings
*zombies
The Secret History does have:
*murder
*Greek language scholars
*incest
*suicide
*snow
Lately Martin has had a thing for zombies. He has also not seen Shaun of the Dead.

What am I reading? Since I put all of this emphasis in being a walking book suggestor for my husband I must be reading something quite grand. I'm reading The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman. So far it is absorbing and fascinating. I try to sneak little bits of it in all through the day. It's better than crack. Or so I can imagine.