I just found this meme over at Should Be Reading:

What great books did you find or hear about this past week? Share with us your FRIDAY FINDS!

Either leave a comment with a link to your blog post about your Friday Finds at Should Be Reading, or share your ‘finds’ in a comment here (and / or there) if you don’t have a blog.

My FRIDAY FINDS this week (according to GoodReads.com):

Gorgeously Green: Every Girl’s Guide to an Earth-Friendly Life (Paperback) by Sophie Uliano, which I found over at The Mother Load. I’ll admit it’s mostly the cover that made me want to read this – like, “You mean I can be green and somehow look gorgeous and skinny, too?” and I actually think that might be the point of the book, bonus points, am I right?

The Wind in the Willows (Paperback) by Kenneth Grahame, I read about on Reading To Know, during the Children’s Classics Carnival at 5 Minutes for Books. After reading her review I ran into my son’s room, found a selection of it in one of his “storybook collection” books and read said collection to him. The poor little 2 year old was terribly confused but seemed “happy mom was happy” but now I really want to read the whole book as I’m guessing the 2 chapters I read could not possibly be the whole story. But seriously, the writing style is just so terrific and so “me” I’m wondering why I hadn’t read it sooner… But if you read my post in the Children’s Carnival, I think we all know the answer…

Living Out Loud (Spiral-bound) by Keri Smith, I heard about recently at Book Zombie and I really want to get it, but it looks like a “must buy” book so it’ll likely have to wait awhile, but I love the idea of for once reading a book that has me Doing something instead of just reading about doing things and then continuing to do nothing…

Wreck This Journal (Paperback) by Keri Smith – also read about this on Book Zombie, on the same post, and ditto. This one seems perfect for anyone who likes the idea of a “journal” but is terrible at keeping up with them… you know, like me…

Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On (Hardcover) by Jenny McCarthy my bestie just bookmarked on GoodReads, I’ve read her other “Laughs” books and love them so I’m definitely planning to read this one, too. Belly Laughs and Baby Laughs are the books I like to give all the mommies to be for baby showers (along with all the itty bittie onsies, socks, and newborn diapers… tee hee) – and yes I am that nerdy friend who buys her friends and their children books for Christmas and Birthdays… oh yes, that’s me.

Revelations (Hardcover) by Melissa de la Cruz is the next book in a series I’m totally crushing on – Blue Bloods was the first. It combines Vampire books, love stories, historical fiction, religious fiction and young adult fiction all in one terrificially fluffy good read. Did I mention ❤ ? I’ll admit, sometimes reading this series I feel a bit too old to relate to the main character, a little too wise, but it doesn’t take long until I’m sucked in and (hahahah get it – sucked in – oh I crack myself up) and dying (::snickers::) to know what happens next…

The Four Man Plan: A Romantic Science (Hardcover) by Cindy Lu I just heard about this morning over at Happy Healthy Hip Parenting. For anyone who’s had a bad relationship or several. This book is one I’m highly anticipating reading soon… ish…. And apparently math is involved? Seriously, maybe I’ll get a math lesson for free? Count me in. (haha get it – count? ohhhh)

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I find it necessary to add these two books that I JUST found because they look AMAZING

When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson: (another book my bestie just added to her queue) : “On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason’s family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna’s life is changed forever… On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound… At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency…
These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson.”

The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor (I read about on the VSL – very short list) : “When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a nineteenth-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fiction and more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hell all converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal…”