I feel terrible that I had to skip the past few weeks of Melissa’s meme, but when I saw this week’s assignment, I knew I had to participate.
I have actually been reading quite a bit recently which is good because I didn’t read for the entire time I was pregnant and almost all of Bun’s first year. I just didn’t have the attention span or the energy and I was so focussed on my baby that the thought of being invested in characters or thoughts or opinions of anyone but my immediate family just seemed too overwhelming. I don’t think I even read the news for the first few months after Bun was born. But I picked it up again once Bun started having a predictable and stress free bed time and I had a good chunk of time to myself in the evenings. These are the three that I consider as read for this week.
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton: I devoured this book in a day and a half. I loved all the characters, especially Grace and the book does such a fantastic job of evoking atmosphere that I would feel chills and goosebumps from it days later. I will admit that I love almost anything that has to do with the early 20th century in Britain, so I was predisposed to like it, but I think it is absolutely fabulous. I’m so glad I gave Kate Morton a second chance because I really didn’t care for The Forgotten Garden
Broken Glass Park: This is a memoir/autobiography/novel about a seventeen year old living in the Ghettos of Germany. I absolutely loved the first 2/3rd of the book. The end got a bit too surreal and almost got too melodramatic. This was a little different from what I normally read but I’m glad I branched out.
Organic Baby and Toddler Cookbook: Okay, so I haven’t read this from cover to cover, but I have been glancing through this over the week. All I have to say “Meh”
Orange You Grape 
Broken Glass Park sounds interesting. I may have to look into it if I ever get out from under my shelves of “to-read” books!
Broken Glass Park does sound interesting. I hate it when books are great through most of it and the ending is a disappointment!
Yeah the 2nd book sounds interesting. Bookmarking it for future reference.. 😉 thanks for stopping by my blog..
I was going to say that I was jealous of the cookbook and then I saw the “meh.” Haha- maybe I’m not jealous after all? Need toddler food ideas though for sure!
Thanks for linking up!
I was going to say the same thing as Melissa.
Ooh — I really want to make my own baby food this time around, and that cookbook seems ideal b/c we’re big into organics (mostly for the kid … as we can afford it). Why didn’t you like it? Is there another that you’d recommend?