Reading matters (no, not the town!)

St Renaud
Yesterday's weather: glorious.

How to amuse oneself when one's foot must be raised all day long?

Reading? Yup finished two books and I'm currently working my way through Memoirs of a Geisha by William Golden. I've been putting it off for ages thinking that I would read it when I could devote some time to concentrate on it. It's lovely, I'm really enjoying it. But where do I go from here? I have James Clavell's Tai Pan on the bookshelf if I want to stay in the Far East, or should I go for next month's book club read Pirate Hunter which is the biography of Captain Kidd. That looks like a long and heavy read so I could get a start on it. Or I could continue with the Jean-Paul Sartre trilogy that I started some years ago - I did pick up the second book but never actually got very far with it. I've also got Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca staring me in the face and several of the last few years' 'big readers', Labyrinth, The Time-Traveller's Wife and Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. I think that's why I enjoy the reading group I joined, they tell you that you have to read a particular book at a particular time and you just get on with it.

I love reading and have collected lots of books over the last few years to save up for such a time as this. I still keep going to Amazon for new ones even though I haven't finished this pile yet! I really should go to Book-Buyers Anonymous or something. Jon seems to think I should anyway. We are planning a trip to the UK later this year, beware Waterstones in Guildford (all three branches) me and my credit card are heading your way!

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Unfortunately the tiramisu is still in the fridge. Our friends weren't able to make it for lunch after all as their car has broken down. A bit like me. I'm hoping that things don't come in threes and there isn't another piece of bad luck on the horizon.