April Reads.
Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
Sucked me in and, when it spat me out three hours later, left me wanting more.
The Ostomy Book by Barbara Morr Mullen & Kerry Anne McGinn
Everything you need to know about ostomies in one friendly and helpful volume.
Beautiful Easy Herbs by Laurence Sombke
Beautiful pictures with very informative text.
The 20-Minute Vegetable Gardener by Marty Asher & Tom Christopher
Garden smarter, not harder.
Princess in Love by Meg Cabot <
p>The saga continues.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
A bibliophile's wet dream -- a collection of essays on reading and collecting by another bibliophile.
The Organic Suburbanite: An Environmentally Friendly Way to Live the American Dream by Warren Schultz
Organic living for posers? Hip and glossy with nearly zero content.
My 1000 Americans: A Year-Long Odyssey Through the Personals by Rochelle Morton
I am not sure what I was thinking when I borrowed My 1,000 Americans from the library. Probably that it looked cute and funny and full of that delicious English humor. Anyway, I should have paid more attention to the obvious signs that My 1,000 Americans was a bad book that should be never ever ever sully my reading collection. 1,000 stories on less than 250 pages? Mmm, bet it will be tightly edited, truly snappy prose. It wouldn't be mean and obvious and stupid, would it? Oh, no.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
If you are what you eat, we're all dead.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Freaky.
My Garden (Book): by Jamaica Kincaid
Beautifull. Lyrical. Compelling.
The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
Can people truly change or do they just keep reverting back to their old habits?
The Diamond Slipper by Jane Feather
One of the most bizarre romances I've ever read. There's rape, domestic violence, attempted forced abortion (I say attempted only because the girlie wasn't actually pregnant), and multiple murders (I do count the death of the abusive husband as murder), oh and a love affair between the 16 year old "heroine" and her step-children's middle-aged uncle.
True Confessions by Rachel Gibson
City girl relocates to the country and falls in love.
Lola Carlyle Reveals All by Rachel Gibson
Ex-model falls in love with secret agent. Fluffy little page turner.
The Silver Rose by Jane Feather
Wicked brothers force beauty to marry dreaded enemy. Obviously, they fall in love and foil the brothers's plot to destroy hubbie.
Singer From the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper
Favoritest Tepper ever.
Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück
Nothing like revisting the poetry that fucked me up in college.
Descending Figure by Louise Glück
See above.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
I liked the Mystery! version better, but I am also a cultural barbarian.
The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
Bad.
The Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis Fact Book by The National Foundation for Ileitis & Colitis
Because, apparently, you shouldn't go to the doctors expecting them to know how to talk to you.
Understanding Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis by Jon Zonderman & Ronald S. Vender
See above.
The Angry Gut: Coping with Colitis & Crohn's Disease by W. Grant Thompson
See above.