It’s Sunday and I find myself a tad tired. I haven’t been sleeping all that well. No reason for it really but it’s left me sort of listless and droopy. I get this way sometimes right before the time changes. All I want to do is curl up in bed with a book by my side but once again The Hub is working so I have kid duty.
My daughter’s birthday is later this week so I have been planning a smallish party for her too. It’s what we call Fall Break here so I fear that only a few kids will be able to come. Most are on vacation with their folks. The invite said to RSVP by Monday and so far, she has two girls coming. That’s it!
In honor of her birthday we took her to the Mannequin Girl Store. Oh…you’ve never heard of it? Well you might know it as the American Girl Store but my daughter swears it is the ‘mannequin’ girl store and if you visit, you will probably say that she is not that far off. The lure of the store is that you can find a doll that looks just like you. You can also dress like her and there is a doll hospital, and tea room and beauty shop.
As you can imagine, all of this is very expensive but there are books too! She received two with what she purchased but just look at her. So, so happy with her doppelgänger by her side.
So what’s going on today? I am writing up my review of Goldengrove for a TLC Book Tour that is scheduled for October 8th. I am also finishing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I am down to the last 50 pages and find myself spreading them out in an attempt to make them last.
For dinner I am grilling up steak tacos. Easy and good and the kids enjoy them too.
On another note, I am giving away a copy of The Last Dickens. The giveaway is open through 10/9. If you haven’t entered yet, click here for details. This post also happens to include an awesome guest post written by Matthew Pearl. Stop by if you can.
Also, thanks to everyone that commented on my first Confessions of a Readerpost. I think we had a nice discussion of sorts and it’s given me some food for thought.
I spent a lovely morning with friends. My daughter and I attended a Halloween craft workshop. It was really not planned to be a daughter and me type of event but when The Hub has to work extra hours to make ends meet in this economy, I find myself taking the kids with me when I normally would not. Needless to say, she took over all my crafts and although I planned to post a nice pic to include with this post, I find myself unable to do that.
One of the projects was a candy bar wrapper. Well, the candy bar is gone so all I have is the wrapper which I have included here. Where did the candy go, you ask? Into her mouth, as quick as she could eat it because all I did was turn my head for a second and it was gone. Poof!
We made some other projects but they didn’t do well on the short walk back to the house. However, my daughter did allow me to keep this bookmark party favor. I think it’s adorable and if you ask me, I’d take the bookmark over the candy bar any day.
Right now I am making Albondigas soup. Mainly, this is a Mexican meatball soup that I make with ground turkey, fresh tomatoes, squash and anything else I have on hand. Today I had some fresh herbs so I tossed those in. I don’t really use a recipe or I’d share it. Somehow it just always comes out perfect.
I just finished writing up my review of The Last Dickens which will post later tonight, for a book tour that starts tomorrow. I also finished Goldengrove. I really enjoyed it. The review for that won’t post until October 8th as it is also part of a book tour.
So what am I reading now? I am still reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I am really getting into it but tonight I plan to read Viola in Reel Life for Book Club Girl’s blog talk show with the author which takes place this Wednesday, September 30th.
Book Chatter 