Reading Journal: Land of the Free!

It isn't often that I title any posts on this blog, other than to identify them as they relate to reading or writing, but this, I couldn't help.

This morning, I got an e-mail from MMM (which is, like, the most interactive blog on the planet) saying that their most recent giveaway winner hadn't responded with an address, and was the address from the last time this happened still good? 

Sure is!  I seriously am not sure what I'm going to do with 5 new more books.  I already need another bookshelf.  I'm pretty sure the tall one started to bow the last time I added books.  ....although....I did just clear out a shelf in one of my closets; I could probably move my journals there.  Then I could use the enclosed shelf they're on now for my antique collection, which might allow for some breathing room.  But probably not much.

I think I'm most excited about the 1945 edition of  Temples of the Most High by N.B Lundwall.  Not only do I love temples, but I've been pondering a lot about the history of temples since the Industrial Revolution.  And I love old books.  I seriously had to talk myself out of spending $20 on 2 sets of 5 books each circa ~1940s at the thrift store last night.  If they had been in better shape, I hadn't walked to the store, and I knew I had room for them, I would've bought them.

This afternoon, Kjerstin Gruys offered a copy of her book, Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall for free.  Well, essentially free.  She's asking bloggers/recipients of the book to take the challenge to not look at their reflection for one day and blog about it the week of May 6th.  Which I'll do here.

Guess I'd better hurry up and finish Of Thee I Zing and The River at the Center of the World so I can move on to the next segment of the cycle.

Oh, and I know it's early, but I may have to drop out of Camp NaNo.  I'm just not feeling it, and not in that "I'm just not feeling it" way.  I mean, I'm thinking this is a challenge I'm not up for just quite yet.  I'm thinking I should stick to just November.