I haven't been very good at writing, so on the spur of the moment, I have decided to at least list books I am currently reading (or have recently read).  This will give a good idea of my activities at any given snapshot in time and maybe I'll be inspired to write more about those activities.

My recent reads:
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larsen
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Naturally Clean Home by Karyn Siegel-Maier
Clean House Clean Planet by Karen Logan (only people with the name Karen can write about green cleaning)

I enjoyed all of these books.  Allegra Goodman is a good writer.  I also enjoyed Isaac's Storm for making the Galveston Hurricane very real.  The books on green cleaning is one of those areas of interest that I spoke of.  I am making my own all-natural, great-smelling, and economical cleaning products and loving the results.  More on this to come, no doubt.

Current books:
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
God is not One by Stephen Prothero
The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga by Sage Rountree

I just finished running my first Half Marathon, so I am really pumped about running.  I keep hearing what a great book Born to Run is, so I picked it up and keep trying to start reading it!  Forest Lover just speaks to my inner independent woman artist wanting so much to come out of the shadows!  I am reading God is not One for a book group that I belong to.  And I love Yoga but haven't been able to get to a class in a long time.  So I picked up this book with great illustrations to help me with my own Yoga practice here at home as cross-training for my running.  I'm planning to do some swimming this winter too.

Books recently started and ditched:
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

This is not to say these books are bad, or that I won't decide to read them later.  For now, they have taken a backseat to these others.  I was a bit put off by Labyrinth.  The writing is just not very good.

Just writing about something....anything, is my point to jumping off with what I am reading (because I am always reading something!)  I'll try to write some about the books and what I'm doing with the information in coming posts.