What’s on Your Nightstand is a monthly blog post hosted by 5 Minutes for Books.
This is the first time I participate in this meme, but I hope to make it a monthly occurrence. In any case, I knew my teetering pile of books needed to be immortalized somewhere! Here’s what’s on my nightstand at the moment:
- Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka (just started reading last night)
- The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch (have been reading for a couple of weeks)
- The Pages in Between by Erin Einhorn (next up)
- The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker (awaiting review)
- Study in Lilac by Maria-Antònia Oliver (gift from my friend Helen)
- Safe Haven by Larry Gaudet (gift from my friend Helen)
- The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip (on loan from Helen)
- Tethered by Amy MacKinnon (started reading but put aside for now)
- When One Man Dies by Dave White (need to find this one a new home as I won’t be reading it)
- Dead on Sunday by A. J. Orde (finished last year and won’t be reviewing)
Helen is my kind of friend (giver of books)! Happy Reading
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to hear your thoughts on Sister Wife. I have been wondering about this one. :)
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a fun meme. You have an interesting list and several I am unfamiliar with. I've read "The Pages In Between" and reviewed it on my blog. It's a wonderful memoir and reads like a novel,IMO. I have "The Little Giant of Aberdeen County" on my nightstand also. I just wish that I had more time to read or was a speed reader!!
ReplyDeleteI really want to read The Little Giant and I have a copy of Tethered to review. Sounds like you've got some interesting reading there. I'll be watching for your reviews.
ReplyDeleteThat is quite an impressive list. I participated for the first time too!
ReplyDeleteokay...keeping in mind that i read about 25 books a year (or did in '08), is it any wonder that i'm overwhelmed by 'so many books, so little time', when my bedside stand (and percolated piles alongside it) looks like this: [all books are library books unless starred; interlibrary loans have to be returned after two weeks, some popular books can't be renewed after three]:
ReplyDeleteThe Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss by Charles D. Cohen (biography, on interlibrary loan)
Loving what is: Four questions that can change your life by Byron Katie (self-help, recommended by Alex, doubtful i'll read it)
Intimate worlds: life inside the family by Maggie Scarf (recommended by Avis, next on my to-be-read list, also interlibrary loan)
Escaping into the open: the art of writing true by Elizabeth Berg (a goody, currently reading)
The feeling of what happens by Antonio Domasio (non-fic, biology/neurology cross with emotional realities, have been reading off and on for months)
Writing for your life by Deena Metzger (on inter-library loan)
Apples to oysters: a food lover's tour of Canadian farms by Margaret Webb (currently reading)
A natural history of Kings' County by the Blomidon Naturalists' Society (have had out from the library since--2006!)
*Best maritime short stories (library discard)
Poetic voices of the maritimes: a selection of contemporary poetry
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Origin of haloes by Kristen den Hartog (found her in a literary magazine; but I might wait to read her other book that is coming for me on interlibrary loan, "The perpetual ending"--it looks more interesting to me)
The hiding place by Trezza Azzopardi
Seven crows a secret by E.A. Morgan
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
Whale rider by Witi Ihimaera
Almanac of the dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
*Ockam's razor by Wade Rowland (on loan from Avis)
Star-anchored, star-angered by Suzette Haden Elgin
Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore (will not read; but it's where my mother-in-law, via her aunt, acquired her first name)
Okay...that's twenty books.
I think I noticed Trezza Azzopardi elsewhere on your blog (I just grabbed her off the shelf as a browse-read)--is she any good?
Yeah the books around my nightstand (and beside and under my bed) also speak to messiness more than anything.
ReplyDeleteMay I ask - what made you put aside Tethered? I have that in the TBR stacks. I enjoyed your best of the year post!
ReplyDeleteYeah, me too, Nise! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading it, Mari, so hopefully I should have a review posted soon. (I enjoyed it!)
I know what you mean about wanting to speed-read, Bonnie! Although in my case, I think I need to learn to speed-review! I'll check out your review of The Pages in Between once I've finished reading it.
The Little Giant is great, Sandra. And I will pick Tethered up again at some point...
I'll check out your post too, Joyful Days. Thanks for stopping by!
Wow, Brogan, and I thought my pile was impressive! I also have Escaping into the Open, so I'm glad to hear you're enjoying that one! And yes, you're right, I have the Trezza Azzopardi book, although I just got it so I haven't read it yet. We'll have to compare notes once we both get around to it. I'm also curious about the Suzette Haden Elgin book—it's been a long time since I've read anything by her. Thanks for sharing your bookshelf!
Thanks for stopping by, Jennifer! This is a fun meme. I realized when I checked out some other folks' posts that the books on their nightstand were actually books they were intending to read in the next month, which isn't necessarily the case with my pile. (There are at least a few that will be relegated to another spot in the house for a while before they get read!)
Tara, I don't know, it just didn't grab me enough. But I do want to give it another try at some point. Glad to hear you enjoyed my best of 2008 post!
You're braver than me ... my nightstand would need a bit of tidying up before I took a picture; it's quite a catch-all!
ReplyDeleteAh well, Dawn, we'll see what happens next month! (In other words, I'm not so sure there'll be a picture next month either, although there's not much room for anything other than books on my nightstand.)
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