Blog Readin' Fool

I've been reading blogs more than posting this week. After missing out on a lot of the sickness that's been going around the past few weeks, I finally got hit. Stan, Noah and I all have a bad cold, complete with deep, rattling chest coughs and insane amounts of sinus pressure. It wipes me out and makes me feel sick to my stomach. Ich.

I hit Barnes & Noble last week and picked up Anne Lamott's new book: "Plan B: More Thoughts on Faith." It was just what the doctor ordered - new Anne Lamott! Yea!!! The downside was that most of the book was old articles from Salon.com that I had already read. But there was some new stuff, and a lot of stuff addressed forgiveness, which, as you know, I've been struggling with lately. I also bought her book "All New People" which I hadn't read yet. It was the first book of hers that I didn't really like. It didn't seem to have a plot and the characters were simply quilts made from old characters/material from her other books. That's the only real complaint I have about her writing. So much of it is stuff that she has published in other books. The same quotes, the same characters. In "ANP" she tries to mix it up a bit, but it didn't really work. She took parts of characters and gave them to other ones. So no one was really well rounded. It seemed like a rough draft of a book, not something that should have been published.

I bought a couple books from the $1 bin in the used section and they lasted me 2 days. So I've been reading a lot of blogs while I'm sitting on the couch, feeling lethargic and stuffy. Stan has Thursday and Friday off, which will be nice. We can take turns with Noah, which means a lot more rest for both of us. It's nice to have a hubby that shares house and kid stuff 50/50, even though he is also the breadwinner. I am a very lucky gal.

I'm off to take a hot bath and have some tea before bed. Later!