…Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez, in a single day. Granted it’s pretty short as far as novels go, but still… I enjoyed it and recommend it. After finally finishing the Writing Project last week and getting (most of) my stuff moved to my new apartment, I stopped in at my new neighborhood’s library just to get a card and ended up checking out MoMMW, two travel guides for Istanbul*, Dante’s Inferno (a bilingual eddition! lub-lub! lub-lub!), the second installment of the the graphic novel series Buddha (already half way done with that one!), a collection of critical essays about Othello (I’m thinking of teaching the play to my seniors this year instead of Hamlet), Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (gotta keep up with YA lit), and I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. I am still working on the very disturbing but beautifully crafted Haunted by my beloved Chuck Palahniuk (thinking of pairing a few passages of it with Frankenstein this year) and last, but not least, my “professional” reading of the moment is Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men by Smith & Wilhelm.
I swear, If I didn’t have to deal with moving- and new job-related stuff, all I would do for the next four and a half weeks before school starts is READ. I’d still work out in the morning to use up enough energy so that I could sit still, and still do nice things for CJ because I like him and he does nice things for me, too (aaaw). But reading… reading could easily take up 60% of my waking hours.
Right now I am waiting for the cable guy to come pick up my digital cable box/DVR. Yup, getting rid of it. Yeah! Since I need to be here for the silly four hour window that utility companies think make sense, I have all kinds of time to read… and justify not going to my old apartment to clean, not going to my old school to go through with all of the necessary exit procedure stuff, not go set up my new classroom…. 
Yay!
*I will be traveling to Turkey in a few months to work in a school in Istanbul… more on that later!
