The Queen of Everything - Deb Caletti

Jordan's life is just fine, she lives with her dad, has a job, gets good grades. And then one summer it all seems to fall apart. Her dad falls in love with the wrong woman and doing so has consequences.

I'd read this book before, ages ago, when I was a good little student librarian. I couldn't remember what it was about, I just remembered the title. It's aimed at teen readers not me, and the language is fairly simple, no long complicated words. Having said that it's well written, Jordan is a likable character and the plot is quite sophisticated. It's a nice, quick read.

Decisions, decisions

What to read, what to read next?? Since I finished my last epic read (see previous post) I've been reading what I consider "filler" reading, usually the crime thriller books or what's commonly known as chick lit. I don't consider myself much of a lit snob, but I find fluffy books that end happily ever after and the thriller-esque ones are something I can read in one (short) burst so I don't take them particularly seriously. They're mostly read to fill in the time gaps between one good read and another. A bit like a quick bite of something between meals. Something that's probably not very good for me but I do it anyway. Now all I have to do is pick the next, more substantial, meal of a book from the book mountain on my floor. Or maybe an old friend from the shelves....hmmmm.....Happy Reading fellow bookworms.

Climbing the book mountain...

There's a rather large stack of books on my floor, books I haven't read yet and it keeps growing!! Somehow accumulating books is much easier than actually getting around to reading the vast majority of them. It's a slow process, and sometime I get frustrated and clear out one of the smaller sub-stacks and cart them down to the charity shops. Problem is that once I'm in a charity shop the lure of cheap secondhand books I haven't read yet is almost always irresistible. And so the mountain continues to grow, and I continue to attempt to scale it.