Turning Over a New Page This Spring.

I’m a girl of simple pleasures.  I was covering a conference today, and the snack at the break included, among more grown-up choices like coffee, chocolate milk and rice krispie treats.  It was fantastic.

I loved it in much the same way as I love coming home, kicking of my shoes, and reading Glamour cover to cover while enveloped in bubbly bath water; or spending a cozy Friday night watching the tv shows my weekly routine doesn’t always permit; or enjoying an hour (or two) of just sitting down and losing myself in a good book.

I was cruising around over at Heidi’s today and was wholly seduced by the Spring Reading Thing she’s joined.  I’m a little late—the group started last week, on the official first day of spring—but it’s like they say.  Better late than never, right?

Reading, lists, and challenges.  These are three things I love, love, truly love.  So I present you with the Spring Reading Thing 2008, Magda-style. 

                              

I’ve capped my list at ten for now, because I have a serious fear/suspicion/rising certainty that the moment I walk into the bookstore, this list will double.  But for today, here’s what’s between me and June 19 … 

The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer.  I’m actually planning on going to a reading on this later in the month, so that should offer some motivation.

The Solomon Sisters Wise Up, Melissa Senate

Night, Eli Weisel

Chasing Fireflies, Charles Martin

An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, Brock Clarke

Brick Lane, Monica Ali

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

Emma, Jane Austen, for no other reason than that I’m staring at it now, neglected and alone on my bookshelf.  I haven’t read it since high school, but I remember it being so good.  

And the bonus #11, which I just started this week … Passing Under Heaven,  Justin Hill

Yay for springtime, and for books!  YAY.