Friday Night Reading

I was bored out of my gourd tonight so I decided to take a trip to the Barnes and Noble, to read magazines and drink coffee. It's an old pastime of mine that I haven't done all that much lately. Anyway, after a couple hours of catching up on celebrity gossip and what's happening in the music world, I picked up Heather Armstrong's new book "It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita". It's about 240 some pages and I made it through 90+ before I decided to head home again. It's an easy read, but a really good read. I love Heather's style of writing. She's one of those people who knows how to tell a story, and tell it well, and tell it with appropriate humor and emotion. I literally cried and laughed out loud as I was reading. Literally. Anyhow, I'm on a budget, so sadly I won't be able to purchase the book anytime soon, but I'd be willing to bet I'll have it finished before the weekend's over if I make it back to a bookstore. And I'm betting I will...

Brad Warren apparently also has a new book out (Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma) which sounds interesting but as I was flipping through it I was reminded about how much I am annoyed by his heavy use of post scripts (they can be as long as a page on their own - just write it into the passage, Brad!). Anyway, I'm sure I'll read it at some point... it's just not near the top of my list at the moment...