Weekly Update: Oct. 12, 2012

I feel like I had a long week at work this week, culminating in an all-day video shoot today. Video shoots drain my energy because you spend all day hurrying up and waiting. I also got my first two rejection notices on my query about my novel, which hasn't bothered me so far. I'm just glad they're responding instead of leaving me waiting. :) Hopefully something will happen at some point. Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting lost in some good books tomorrow for Dewey's Readathon. I'm just sad the Readathon is on OU/Texas weekend! I'll be spending quite a bit of the day watching the game, yelling Boomer Sooner and insulting Texas. :) I'm sure I'll get a good chunk of reading done too. I'm planning to get up early a read for several hours before the game and get back to it afterwards. I don't plan to stay up all night though - I'm cranky without sleep!

Update from last week:

Books I'm currently reading:

• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling - still having mixed feelings
• The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
• The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner

Upcoming reads:

• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Stories/poems by Edgar Allen Poe
• Lots of YA for the Readathon

Books finished:

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• All Road Lead to Austen by Amy Smith
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Crossed by Ally Condie

Posts this week:

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Italian by Ann Radcliff, Volume I

Books abandoned:

• Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie - I only read about 40 pages and was enjoying it, but I knew I wouldn't be able to finish it by it's due date at the library so I decided to stop and check it out later rather than try to rush through it.