Books I've Read This Week

When I left you last week I had begun The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory. I thought I would like it but again I found myself not caring for her characters. I like the historical content of Philippa's books usually but this time it was more a soap opera but with no warmth. I couldn't wait to finish it.

Saturday morning I spent a little time at the library perusing the photography book section to see what training I might get for my new camera. I picked up The Complete Guide to Digital Photography by Michael Freeman, Creative Digital Photography by Michael Busselle, and How to Look at Everything by David Finn. I skimmed through The Complete Guide and, though it had some good instruction, it was written over five years ago so I think I may need to find some newer resources. How to Look at Everything is one of a series of books by David Finn including How to Look at Photographs and How to Look at Sculpture (neither of which I've read). The basic message is to open your eyes and mind to what is around you and be ready to capture it with your camera. I haven't read the third photography book yet. But I'll get to it.

Other books I read parts of this week include:
The Virgin Queen, Christopher Hibbert (I stopped once I got to the part that The Virgin's Lover covered)
Great Britain, Eyewitness Travel Guide (lots of illustrations and photos)

This morning I started Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll. It picks up where Pride & Prejudice left off (I'm trusting the BBC miniseries on this as I've never read that classic) but is quite concerned with marital relations (let's leave it at that).

Books I have to return to the library tho' I've not finished them (shame!):
The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Britain (too many renewals)
The Complete Stonehenge (too many renewals)

Unread books on my shelf at home:
Sarum: The Novel of England, Edward Rutherford
A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
Creative Digital Photography by Michael Busselle

Books on hold at the library:
Virgin Earth, Philippa Gregory (1 of 1 holds!)
Micah, Laurell K. Hamilton (11 of 22 holds)
Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too, Nancy Martin (1 of 5 holds!)
The 5th Horseman, James Patterson (23 of 30 holds)
Promise Me, Harlan Coben (arrived!)
Their Noble Lordships, Simon Winchester (the website said it had arrived but it wasn't at the library, hmm)
Bleeding Hearts, Susan Wittig Albert (3 of 8 holds)
Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris (13 of 13 holds)

As you can see I'll be waiting quite awhile for some of these books. It's really cramping my style having so many books on long-term holds because they only let you have 10 holds at a time. I could use 20 or more! I had to create an auxiliary hold list by bookmarking the pages of books I want to add.

I really need to get down to the San Francisco library and get a card so I can have more of a selection. My library's pretty limited in what's on the shelves.

And I need to keep reading! So see you next time on Books I've Read This Week.