lets talk about books, baby!

I've recieved so many wonderful books in the last couple of weeks, art related & not. I got most of my current wishlist for Christmas and have purchased a few in my last couple of trips to Barnes & Noble. In fact, I met up my Mom at the Irvine Spectrum last night to "give back" my younger sister, Sarah, who had been staying with us since New Year's and we went to the bookstore. Of course, I couldn't come home without a new book (and some fabulous deals from Anthropologie)! I was telling her how much I just love buying new books even though I really have plenty that I haven't read yet. Probably an entire shelf if I actually owned a bookcase. Note to self: Buy a bookcase! Anyway, I finished reading my first book in 2006 on Monday, which I'll tell you all about after a bit.

List of new books/ magazine subscriptions:
♥ Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to Live by Sabrina Ward Harrison
♥ Brave on the Rocks: If You Don't Go, You Don't See by Sabrina Ward Harrison
♥ The True And the Questions: A Journal by Sabrina Ward Harrison
♥ Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected by Claudine Hellmuth
♥ The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery: Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More by Karen Michel
♥ A magazine subscription to Cloth.Paper.Scissors and Somerset Studio
♥ True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals
♥ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
♥ A Million Little Piece by James Frey
♥ The Chronicles of Narnia (although not this copy) by C.S. Lewis
♥Gardenias for Breakfast by Robin Jones Gunn (I read an entire teen series by her when I was young and LOVED it. I've been told this is for adults, though, so that's good. ;) )
♥ Two children's books to add to my growing collect (I may have more then adult books): Alfie's 1 2 3 by Shirley Hughes; Carl Goes to Daycare by Alexandra Day
♥ And purchased last night- My Friend Leonard by James Frey.

I read all of Sabrina's books, within days of recieving them for Christmas. Then I started on A Million Little Pieces, which is also currently THE book on Oprah's Book Club. It was such a great book- honest and hard to read (content not language difficulty). I wish I was good at writing reviews but I'm simply not so I'll just leave it at that. It won't be hard for you to look up it's rave reviews! Although I have this stack full of books to read, I had to go buy the sequel, My Friend Leonard, which I plan on starting it today.

In August I posted a request for good books to read, here. I've read a few of the suggestions so far. I'm always looking for more great suggestions and enjoy a WIDE variety in work. Any more favorites out there?