Summer reading

Last week (on vacation) I managed to plow through nearly 6 books. I get a little library-request crazy right before vacation. This year I started early and everything I requested actually came in (before we left). I pretty much enjoyed all of them, but couldn't get through Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp. Too much Nick Twisp? Not the right mood? It bugs me when I can't finish a book.

I ended up re-reading The Widow's War, which was my back-up in-case book. I also enjoyed:

Pages for You
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
The Lace Makers of Glenmara (and)
Landing

And then Chris and I went to Barnes and Noble. I must have looked incredibly silly, balanced on one foot, crutches leaning against the book pile, writing down nearly every title on one display table. My post-vacation request list includes:

Lipstick Jihad
The Delivery Room
Well Enough Alone
Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?
Shelf Discovery: Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
Sleeping Naked is Green
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death (and)
Honeymoon in Tehran

Completely unrelated: We now have ZERO children who wear diapers. I don't even want to know how many diapers I have changed/washed over the years. The kids have spent a collective 7.8 years in diapers. I feel a big saggy cotton weight lifted.