Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another library book last night (in a record 2 days!), “Miss Julia Hits the Road” by Ann B. Ross. I’ve read several of these books (I think this is the 4th one, out of maybe 7 or 8 she has written) and plan to read them all. Miss Julia is a great character, a very straight-laced genteel Southern widow, and she has all sorts of interesting and funny escapades that happen to her. Case in point – in this book, she ends up having to ride a motorcycle. In her dress, because she refuses to wear “britches”, because don’t you know, proper Southern women don’t do that 🙂 Another really light, but charming and funny book. They are always very quick reads for me, and a nice diversion from “heavier” topics.

For the record, that makes #29 so far this year, with a total of 10,562 pages read. I do believe I’m easily going to top my goals from last year (30, then later 35 books). I might have to really aim high this year, and try to read a much bigger number. 😀

Up next, I’m going to start a new book by Karen Kingsbury called “Divine”. This is her newest book, I believe, and I was so happy to see it available at one of my local library branches. I just looked, and it just came out in hardback in March 2006, so it is new. It’s going to be a bit “heavier” I think. I skimmed the author’s foreword and found this:

“Divine is a modern-day parable of Mary Magdalene. I have taken liberties – as a novelist must do – in finding seven demons or horrors that a person like Mary Magdalene might’ve been rescued from. In Divine, Mary Madison suffers all types of abuse, among other horrors. There are sections of this book that – though not graphic – will be difficult to read, sections that will put knots in your stomach for what this modern-day Mary suffers.”

Whew, going to be a bit heavier than what I’ve read recently, but hopefully good. I do enjoy her books. 🙂