Well kiddos, another month has come and gone and it’s time once again for the What’s On My Nightstand carnival hosted by 5 Minutes For Books – my monthly reminder that I’ve become a very, very slow reader and I’m starting to get more books on that old TBR list than I could ever hope to actually read. I long for the days when I will read for more than a half hour or hour at night before bed. Anyway…

I’m currently reading:

• Never Tell Our Business To Strangers by Jennifer Mascia
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love is a book I think many of you have heard of and likely have read before – I am quite late to the game on this one. I had just finished reading about her adventures in Italy and was beginning to read about her time in India when I received a copy of Never Tell Our Business To Strangers to review at Mommas Review in two weeks. So even though I was quite passionately adoring it, I had to put down EPL temporarily and devote my attentions to NTOBTS as it’s no small book and it’s not an “easy read” in the way that EPL or my usual light fluffy read would be – still it’s a very fascinating book and I am enjoying it, although I think my deadline has made it feel more like homework unfortunately. I’m not sure I’ll finish it on time but I’m sure as heck going to try!

Anyway…

This month I read:

• Easy on the Eyes by Jane Porter – Finished March 5, 2010 – I’m a big fan of Jane Porter. Her books are always so addictive, lush with detail and characters that are so three dimensional. This book dealt a lot with inner and outer beauty, self confidence and self love, learning to trust and learning to throw away past notions and embrace the future. It was, in short, really really good.

And yeah, that’s it as I had to put down EPL last week and start a new book, I clearly won’t be finishing any other books before the end of the month, but looking forward to the future, after I’ve finished the above mentioned books, I’m hoping to read the following… Obviously not all of them, but…

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll – I’ve been looking for a copy of this book for a few weeks now, desperately wanting to actually read it – I sort of skimmed it half heartedly and then watched the original movie when I was supposed to read it in college (I know, very naughty of me). But now I find myself much more interested but also not wanting to commit to buying it and also looking at my current bookshelves of books yet to be read and yeah, we’ll see. I kind of want to pick it up as an audio book as I’ve been wanting to try audio books again but haven’t yet figured out what format I want to listen to them on – I’m not in the car very long and at home there is always noise from the kiddos going on, but that doesn’t stop me from thinking it could be a fantastic idea and good lord, moving on…
• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell – If I don’t read this soon I think I might need to slap myself silly as it’s been on my “I swear I’m reading this next” list for longer than I can remember now, but…
• The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book One) by Rick Riordan – This just came in the mail and I am quite anxious to read it as I’m hearing rave reviews and if that wasn’t bad enough, yesterday I also got …
• The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz – I huge puffy hearts ADORE the Spellman series and I have a feeling it’s the book I’ll likely actually read next because I don’t think I’ll be able to resist it for long.