I have no excuse

I have no reason why this is my first post in months. None whatsoever. I haven't been more busy than normal, I've been reading great books...

Oh well, let's catch up. During the past few months I have read a few great books, which I'll post later (I mean it this time). Including Juliet by Anne Fortier, Room by Emma Donohue, and Ape House by Sara Gruen. Can I claim that the reason I haven't posted is that the three books I just mentioned aren't actually out yet? I also read the Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley, again not out, but check it out when it comes out, my friend Dan is mentioned in the back acknowledgments. Also, its' a great mystery.

In May I went to Book Expo, and had a fabulous time. Oh wait, that was because due to their moving the damn thing to the middle of the week I got to see more of New York than I had in previous trips (The Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, all of Central Park, and what we called musical overload). Despite having a wonderful time, much of BEA was disappointing. Part of it was the two day format, which they are fixing for next year, but still the excruciatingly bad layout, the lack of good authors and the fact not one vendor handed me a cup of coffee during the entire expo was a disappointment after so many years of great shows. Despite that, there were some great moments, like discovering that Kathryn Stockett was signing the Help, and that they were giving out caramel cake for those in line, seeing Jon Stewart, and the fact Random House (despite some really poor line management) brought some seriously great authors this year. And of course, the well deserved lovefest that followed Justin Cronin around.

And this month I bought a Nook (the Barnes and Noble eReader). Two things to note, I love it, and it might just because I like gadgets and the fact my purse is a lot lighter now, and that being able to download books whenever I think of them is very dangerous. Though I wonder... I'm currently reading Atlas Shrugged, because I feel that the Nook is exactly the right format for the over thousand paged book. So I'm sitting on the beach reading today, and I realized, no one knows what I'm reading, they don't know I'm reading something so high brow. I could be reading Nicholas Sparks on the damn thing. Also, because it has a web browser, and online book shopping right at my finger tips, it's making me ADD. Or more ADD...

Look something shinny, time to go!