Devourer of Books

Since I’m out of town all week, I went ahead and put together a pile of books for the Read-athon so that I wouldn’t have to figure it all out when I came home. Here’s my list of books to pick from day of and why I chose them:

• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - I have wanted to read this ever since I read a review from Rants and Reads over at The Novel World.
• Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood - I adored Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (my review) so I picked up this book of short stories.  It seems like short stories would be good for the read-athon.  I can always read one when I need a break from a longer book.
• Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles - This was a LibraryThing inspired book purchase that I haven’t gotten around to reading and it seems interesting.  And not too long.
• The Twits by Roald Dahl - Something easy and funny for when I need a short break
• The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colon - This is a book I have for review that I’ve had for awhile now.  It also satisfies my ARC Reading Challenge. 
  
• Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers - This actually belongs to a friend of a friend, so I need to read and return it.  Also, it is extremely short.
• The White Mary by Kira Salak - Another ARC I’ve picked up that look interesting.
• The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton - I mooched this ARC off of someone who got it from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  This book seems to have been well received.
• The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy - A review copy given to me from the Santa Fe Writer’s Project.  I read the introduction and Kennedy’s writing left me wanting to dive into the whole thing.  Plus, they are relatively short stories, so I can read one or two and switch to something else.
• The File on H. by Ismail Kadare - Another LibraryThing inspired book that I’ve been looking forward to reading.
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - This blast from the past was my very favorite book in either 2nd or 3rd grade.  Should be a good change of pace.
• The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman - Short stories, plus this is something I was given by Literary Ventures Fund, so I need to get around to reading it.
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler - Some good chick lit for a little something different.

The following are my ‘I’m going away from my bookshelves for a week and I’d better take enough to read and enough to choose from’ books. Any that aren’t finished may get added to the Read-athon pile.

• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster
• Spirit of the Place by Samuel Shem

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