#I'm currently fostering about seven billion of them

[eimearkuopio]

Elijah/Eliza is the best wife, which is what my husband calls me, because he is my best and only husband. But even if I became a widow, I am always going to be your mother and your daughter and your sister and your friend and your enemy and I love you ALL. I'm the Echo. I've found my voice. But I am still human, or as human as the rest of you. I chose that. Which means I still need to sleep in a non-euphemism way, but I'm not sleeping until I know my children feel safe. So can someone maybe let me know:

MARCO

[televinita]

Reading Triage

(I love being in the middle of ten billion books.)

CURRENTLY READING

1. Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett: 2nd time through, now in audio. I've decided this series demands to be read twice, once in each format, before you've really wrung the full feeling out of it.

2. Safekeeping - Karen Hesse: audio, because it's under 5 hrs & the theme is Walking A Lot, so I figured it would be a good choice for exercise motivation. (but now I have to at least track down an ebook too because according to reviews the real book has photographs)

3. Bound For Home - Meika Hashimoto: a modern-day Incredible Journey but this time the third member of the party is the girl the pets belong to (also the cat isn't a pet yet, but she's considering adopting the family).

4. A Hundred Pieces of Me - Lucy Dillon: rather randomly fished this out of a bag (bought at a book sale a couple of years ago) and decided I'm in the mood for it now, 8 12 yrs after last reading one of her books. To my surprise I am SUPER enjoying it! It's quite long, though; I've put in a good 3 hours of reading time and I'm still not at the halfway point.

5. Top Ten - Katie Cotugno: a recent purchase, grabbed when I needed a summery-feeling book to read outside. Right now it's back to dull and rainy so this book is off to the side, but there will be plenty of good days ahead.

UP NEXT

1. Another Good Dog: One Family and Fifty Foster Dogs - Cara Sue Achterberg: sign me up!!

2. Half Broke - Ginger Gaffney: a memoir of a woman who helped facilitate the mustang training program at a prison. Reviews are mixed, especially from people disappointed in the horse content (which is the ONLY reason I'm reading it), but perhaps I'll be surprised.

3. I Know What You Did - N.L. Hinkens: taking the new I.L.L. site out for a spin with this thriller, in which "what if baby-crazed Terri Schuester struck that baby-adopting deal w/ Quinn, but also Terri was slightly more like Emma -- aka the school guidance counselor -- and Quinn was potentially insane or at least murderous."

4. Bird Brain - Joanne Levy: I just read The Sun Will Come Out on a whim (book sale purchase), and in looking up her back catalog I see a children's book ft. a girl bird-sitting an African gray parrot. Sounds fun! Also nice & short.

5. Out of the Valley of the Horses - Wendy Orr: I've been waiting on this children's book to be published in the U.S. since last year, at last it's here!

6. Monarch Manor - Maureen Leurck: may or may not get to this one right now, but it's been on my TBR for a few years and both this and Wendy Orr's book are only in the county next door. I always try to grab at least 2 items when I make the trek over here, so: cleaning out late grandmother's dilapidated mansion for an estate sale it is! [edit: my mistake, the hoarder grandma and the dilapidated mansion are different houses. interesting]

edit 2: see, so many I forgot one!

7. Freaks, Geeks & Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television - Thea Glassman: waiting for the audio but I have the ebook checked out because I'm that impatient (no physical copy). I've only actually watched 3 of them, and only two while they were airing/with understanding of the chronology, but I'm still interested to hear about these shows because most of them are at least on my TBW.