Quick - read this book!

I love finding a great book. It is just the best feeling, and one I had recently when I read Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Paula Marantz Cohen.

Such a fun and interesting book. The requisite love story, plus a surprisingly involving plot about the main character's work as a high school guidance counselor. It's well written and I was more interested in the extraneous characters in this book than I am in the main characters in others I have read.

She has a couple other novels out that I have put on my library hold list. Hopefully they are all good.

So, go out and read this one.

Jucier than Desperate Housewives

Reading The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives is a lot like reading People Magazine.

It might not have a ton of literary value, but it's fun and gossipy, and the characters in it are vaguely horrifying.

It is the story of a very wealthy neighborhood and all the scandal that is lurking underneath the surface. (Hint, it's a lot)

All in all, a good time.

Am I a broken record?

Oh my goodness, stop talking about Katie Fforde.

But I can't, because I just love her.

I just finished Restoring Grace, and it was another winner. British, house remodeling, and romance. What more can a girl ask for.

Perfect for curing up in bed with.

My odd new DVD obsession

I have been watching the first season of Third Watch on DVD and have been enjoying it a bizarrely large amount.

It's a show about firemen, paramedics, and police. Not something that would normally be my cup of tea, but the people are cute and the stories are completely interesting.

Totally recommended, plus I think it ran for five or six seasons, so I have much more enjoyable DVD watching ahead of me.

Books don't always translate

I blogged earlier this summer about a book I had liked that the CW was going to turn into a TV series, Privileged.

This weekend I watched their season premiere.

It seems like something I would like, given my proclivity for teenage

shows and the fact that I enjoyed the book.

And? It was okay. I will probably continue to Tivo it, but I didn't even make it through the season premiere in one sitting, I kept turning it off to watch something more interesting.

A little slow, and definitely no Gossip Girl.

I'm still cool, despite playing video games

I got home yesterday to discover that my copy of Spore had arrived in the mail. Very exciting.

Spore is the new game by the creator of all of the Sims line and I have been looking forward to playing it for ages.

In the game, you start as a single cell organism and slowly evolve until you are able to take over other planets through interstellar travel.

I have to admit that I am currently playing in on the very easiest setting, because I do so hate to be virtually thwarted. I am enjoying conquering other species very much.

If you are an even sort of video game player, definitely recommended.