Living Large In Our Little House

As you may recall, I made one New Year’s res­o­lu­tion when the cal­en­dar rolled over to 2010: I wanted to read 26 books this year, which aver­ages out to one every other week.

I’ve reminded myself again why I do not make New Year’s res­o­lu­tions. I stopped at five books when the weather warmed up. I only read what I had to read for work.

I was excited to jump back into my read­ing a few weeks ago with my book club’s pick of “The Senator’s Wife,” by Sue Miller. I’m not nor­mally a “Peyton Place” type reader, but I had skipped the two pre­vi­ous book club reads and instead went just for the con­ver­sa­tion and food.

This was a bad choice to get me back into read­ing. Continue Reading »