What are you reading this summer?

Harlequin Historicals. Just read Michelle's Viking book and Carol Townsend is next. I did read a Blaze but it was Hope Tarr's new one and it was a historical too. (That reminds me I need to put up a book review!)

Angel

I'm up to summer '04. Yeah, you read that right. I did stop subscribing in '05 or '06 b/c I was so far behind, but have bo't some here and there since then.

I threw out a mini challenge this past weekend that if you're choosing between two books, to choose the shorter one. I think I said 30% of the time? I'm aiming for higher, but I am also way behind on my Bombshell reading (which are among my longer reads). The line closed a year and a half ago, and I still have 20-30 sitting in my extra bedroom dresser drawer.

How's the walking going? You have plenty of time, I think, to do it "right". My mom wants to take our 80something aunt to Quebec in two years. If we can, we'll rent a house for 3-4 weeks in the village that my great-grandfather is from. So, Netherlands and/or France is at least 3 years away. Does that give you enough time but not too much? :)

If I had your email (hint), we could support each other's efforts. I need to start walking and never think to do it! 

Penn

Oh, PS, I have quite a few French language romances from Sadhbh, so I guess I should read some of those this summer, huh? It's hard to motivate myself when it takes me a week to read something in French and the English version would take two hours. Of course, if I'd JUST DO IT, I'm sure I'd get faster. sigh. 

I am going to work on my thinner books per Penn's challenge.  So I will be reading mostly Desires and Presents.  I am also going to read a few of my "read in 2008 books" which aren't romances so even though I really want to read them I always push them aside to read a romance.

All those books! I wish I lived near you so I could mooch a few. There are some older ones at our library on base; do many of you ladies blog older books?

Angel 

so yeah, I blog older books. Including Anne of Green Gables, which came out in 1908. I've seen lots of bloggers reviewing older H/S books, too . . . actually, I blogged a HR (it was actually a M&B) from the 1940s. SunCityResident gave me all her old Mary Burchells. Ms. Burchell started writing for M&B in the '30s and did so til the early '80s. She used the money from her writing to help Jews escape Europe prior to WWII. She and her sister are credited with saving 29 lives.

Are you blogging any books that you read with your kids? Remember to do that, too. I'm up 10 books b/c of my kids' stories. I combine them til they equal a full-length book. Sometimes I only need to combine 2, sometimes 4 or 5. It's an interesting mix . . . my own choices and thiers.

Penn 

I'm going to try reading some of the three book series I have piled up. I really like reading them all in one go.

Penn : I have most of Mary Burchell's books in a box in my basement. She and Betty Neels were the first two authors I started collecting.  I wish Harlequin would bring out her autobiography as a special book, I have searched for it on the internet but any copies around are way to expensive for me. It's called We Followed Our Stars By Ida Cook(her real name) and was published in 1950.  It does tell about her and her sister. I think I am out of luck though as she isn't a current writer.

I never thought of blogging the books i read with my boys. We did read The Deathly Hallows 3 times this year but I guess I can only blog it once!

I will have to research Ms. Burchell- she sounds quite a character. We recently drove through Sun City, AZ and I never thought it could be a romance readers haven.

Angel