I'm over it

Well, thanks to 2 fabulous ideas from friends (Thanks, Naomi and Christine...and YES, Naomi I want that chocolate cake recipe!) I now know where the final few zucchini on my counter will be ending up. So 'nuff about that.

I stayed up too late last night and finished The Reader. It was pretty good, but I kept thinking there was going to be more to it. More mystery, more depth of characters, more...anything. Perhaps it was the German to English translation that kept it sort of surfacey, but overall it was an enjoyable 2-day read. It's a post WW2 novel, about a German boy who falls in love with an older lady who has a secret. I haven't seen the movie but I suspect the screenplay was much more in depth than the book. Otherwise the movie would have to be only about 45 minutes long.

I didn't read the one pictured here, so I was unaware that it is an Oprah recommendation. No offense to anyone who relies on her expertise in literature, but I tend to snark at several of the books she recommends. I guess we just don't always see eye to eye. I can live with that. But I would love to be on her "Oprah's Favorites" show...dang, have you seen some of the great stuff she gives away? Plasma tv's, Dyson vacuums, every kitchen appliance you can think of (please, does she really cook, or does she just enjoy watching her 7 chefs use said appliances?) that at the end of the show I feel the need to repent for coveting EVERYTHING. :)

Now I'm going to start reading Empire Falls by Richard Russo.

I'll let you know how it goes. It's 483 pages, so I won't be finishing it in two days. :)