I went out shopping for a few books tonight at Borders, and ended up buying more than I planned. I'm finish up reading The Dirty Girls Social Club (Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez) for the second time before I get started on the new books. It's really light reading, good for relaxing in the bath with. I got desperate at Krogers earlier this week due to my lack of reading material, and picked up sMothering (Wendy French). It looks stupid, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Tonight, I picked up The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition (William Strunk JR. and E.B. White) as well as The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing: Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work (Meg Leder, Jack Heffron, and the editors of Writers Digest). I'd been recommended the first book by several people, and the second book just looked really big and full of useful information. Maybe I'll be able to improve my writing style a bit.
On the bargain shelf, I found The Complete Guide to Yoga: The Essential Guide to Yoga For All The Family (Judy Smith, Doriel Hall, Bel Gibbs). I was unable to find this on Amazon or any other site, unfortunately. The ISBN for it is 0-681-18580-5. It was $5, and it's a good book from what I can tell so far. It covers Many of the Asanas, and the Iyengar Basics. It even discusses yoga for children, and it's fully illustrated with color photographs.
In my quest to learn as many languages as humanly possible (or at least learn enough of each language to be able to understand it if not speak it fluently), I bought Parla Italiano? Learn Italian: The Basics (Giuseppe Manca, Caterina Bertolotto). It's a book/DVD set. I don't really learn well via audio representations, but I do like to use it to make sure my pronounciation is correct.
Because I <3 fiction, I bought Smashed: Story of a drunken girlhood (Koren Zailckas). I wouldn't normally have noticed it, but it won accolades from Mary Karr, whom I regard very highly due to Stephen King's obsession with her. Along with that theme, I also got Chloe Does Yale (Natalie Krinsky), which really only caught my eye because it was bright pink. When I read the back, it was reviewed by another of my favorite fiction authors, Moly Jong-Fast.
Since I had Mary Karr on my mind, I got another copy of The Liars' Club (Mary Karr). It's an awesome book that I'd recommend to anyone. It won more awards than you can shake a stick at back in 1995, and it's also fairly cheap to pick up - I paid $12.95.
When we were in the checkout lane, I snagged a copy of The Incredibles: Widescreen 2-Disc Collectors Edition. It was on sale, and Nathan will pee himself when he sees it in his Easter basket. I got a bottle of Crabtree & Evelyn Lavender Hand Therapy and Blue Q Dirty Girl Sparkling Hand & Body Cream.
This should give me something to do for the weekend.
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