Will I ever read all the books on my TBR list? Duh, No....

The question on a Book Blogger Blog Hop  is:

 

Do you think you will ever read every book in your TBR (To Be Read) stack? 

 

 

 I take comfort in the fact that I could be quarantined in my home library for years and never run out of reading material!  Of course there are also bookcases all over the house and cottage, adding to my TBR list.

 

 





Teaser Tuesdays: A Meme

I've been under the weather for a week so I decided to do something different and participate in a meme--of course I had to ask someone what a meme is in blogger talk. 

My teaser lines comes from Gumbo Limbo: An Alex Rutledge Mystery, by Tom Corcoran.

Key West had fallen funk-deep into its humid, mid-August dog days.  I smelled rot in the yard, old rainwater held by the lowest layers of dead leaves.  Carmen Sosa, my sweet neighbor, always joked that this time of year you could take a bath just sitting in your car. [p. 1]

This isn't great literature, but it rates as escapist summer reading for me when it's hot outside, and I'm trying to distract myself from not feeling good.  The depictions of the locale are enough to make you start to sweat, or "glisten," as the case may be.  Other descriptions let you know quickly that the book is written by a man.  For whatever the reason, I've been reading a lot of mysteries set in Key West lately.  They seem to epitomize summer in the tropics. 

Oops, don't think I read the rules of the meme.  Oh well. 

Look for short reviews of some Key West mysteries on my blog soon.  I'm looking for suggestions of mysteries set at the beach, so let me know if you have suggestions.

To participate in this meme correctly, or view other teaser lines, go to Should Be Reading.

My Life According to Books 2012

Just discovered a meme that seems like fun.  A posting in Pop Culture Nerds' My Life According to Books 2012 lists open-ended sentences, which the aforementioned blog author asks participants to complete using names of books we've read during the year.  Here is my list:

Every Monday I look like: The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella).

Last time I went to a doctor (chiropractor) was because: (I was) Tender at the Bone (Ruth Reichl).

Last meal I ate was: Gumbo [Tales] (Sara Roahen).

My savings account is: Gone Missing (Linda Castillo).

When a creepy guy asks for my number, I: (turn into) The Cold Dish (Craig Johnson).

Ignorant politicians make me:  (see) The Evil that Men Do (Jeanne M. Dams).

Some people need to spend more time: (in) Another Man's Moccasins (Craig Johnson).

My memoir could be titled: A Curtain Falls (Stephanie Pintoff) .

If I could have, I would've told my teenage self: Books Can Be Deceiving (Jenn McKinlay)

In five years I hope I am: Crystal Clear (Jane Heller).

To participate in this meme, click on the link, My Life According to Books 2012.  Or you can just read about other folks' lives as told by the books they read. 

If you want to read reviews of the books I used to tell my life story, click the titles in the list above. I read two of the books this year before I started this blog so there's no review of these.