The Reading Plan Plan

After browsing through several librarian Reader's Advisory books and guides, and asking people about what they're reading, and taking RA tests, I've discovered that my worst genre is the Action Adventure/Thriller. But, after last years Suspense/Thriller plan, I'm tired of the thriller genre. So I'm going with something lighter and doing Chic Lit.

Here are my selections:

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding - a classic in chic lit

Restoring Grace by Katie Fforde

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner - I've read good reviews for this

Bookends by Jane Green - it has "book" in the title

Do you have any chic lit favorites that I should read?

Reading Plan

Since I joined the Fiction Team at my library a couple of years ago, I have been doing yearly reading plans. A reading plan is way to become more familiar with genres or trends that are outside of your normal comfort reading zones. You can put however many books you want on it, but there should be enough for you to become familiar with the genre. Suspense/Thriller was my genre of choice last year and I read a romantic suspense, legal thriller, a psychological suspense, and a literary thriller.

I've decided that Suspense is not my cup of tea, but now I'm more familiar with it and, hopefully, will not get a deer-in-headlights reactions the next time someone asks me for a good suspense/thriller book. I'm not sure where to go next. I've done a Romance plan and the Suspense, and Fantasy is my comfort genre. I've been thinking about doing Chic Lit or Mystery. Or maybe I should a type of book or topic, like graphic novels or poetic novels.

Any suggestions? Recommendations? Comments?

Branch-land

I work at the main library in our library system. Its a large, 6 story, bright red building. Its been needing repairs for a long time and this week they started on some major work. Because they've had to build scaffolding in the lobby and turn off the HVAC in order to fix it, the library has been temporarily closed. So I have been working at a branch library all week instead. I've heard many tales about branch libraries, most of them not good, but it really wasn't as bad as the stories I've heard.

Good things about working at a branch:
- Its quiet. Yes, libraries really can be quiet places.
- Its clean.
- There's no mad rush at opening for Internet computers.
- You don't have to pay to park.

Bad things about working at a branch:
- Getting emails from Central Reference saying there's sweets in the basement.

Feeding Max

Here is the video of Max I told you about a couple of days ago. It finally worked. Yeah!

A Taste of Winter

As I stepped out of the church last night, after Young Women's, I was very glad that I had my coat instead of just a jacket. There was a coldness and crispness to the air that I haven't felt since I lived in Utah. You know that sharp, dry, cold that comes when the temperature drops below freezing? Yep, it fell below 32 degrees last night, and before midnight. :)

Feeding the kitten

Max is the most unusual cat I've ever had. He's sweet, but also kind of dumb. He's got this really long legs that would be good for jumping, but he hasn't quite figured out how to jump yet, unless its to them climb onto something. Just jumping onto thing, like counters and banisters, he doesn't get. He's tried to jump onto the railing too. He gets his paws hook around the railing, and then starts sliding down. Its rather amusing.

Another amusing thing he does chase his food before he eats it. He will not eat dry cat food without pouncing on it first. I took a video of him and was going to share it with all of you, but it won't upload. If anyone has some tips on how to get video from a camera to upload, I'd appreciate it.

Just missed it

On Monday the excitment started. A cold front was sweeping across the country and it was going to hit Texas. Not just the Northern Texas Panhandle either, but all of Texas. Snow was coming.

Rumors were flying on Tuesday, Wedsnesday and Thursday. We would get half and inch. We would get 10 inches. We would get 2 inches, but it wouldn't stick. Inclement weather policies were reviewed. The city could shut down.

Friday came. Snow fell . . . in the Hill Country, north of us. In Stockdale, south of us. In Houston, to the east. But not in San Antonio. We were encompassed about with snow, but we never saw a flake of it.

The closest we got to snow was a layer of frost on Saturday morning.