Light reading this week

Last night, I went home and tuned the rest of the world out. No news. No phone. Even in the car, no radio. Ate a horrendously bad for me dinner (toast w/ nocilla, an olive oil/anise crisp, a handful of cinnamon jelly beans and a bottle of pear ale) then fell asleep while trying to read John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise. I love the concept: a modern, satiric (or should it be satirical?) version of Poor Richard's Almanac, full of lies and exaggerations and outright goofiness. [FYI: John Hodgman is the Resident Expert on The Daily Show and is the PC guy in the Apple commercials.] But I'm stuck -- I've been carrying the book around with me all week.

I haven't gotten much reading done this week, and the little that I have done was re-reads on my eBookwise reader. Re-read Stephanie Vaughan's Crossing the Line, which I love. Ryan, one of the heroes, reads like a cutie, but it's Jamie, the "main" hero, that I really like. And I skimmed Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Queen. I'm not sure why these two appealed so much -- normally Persuasion or Memory or Blue Castle is my comfort read to break a slump.

Unrelated: My Arabic class (level 2, woo hoo!) starts on Saturday, so I need to spend some time today reminding myself of the grammar rules, sounds, etc. What was I thinking? I should've been doing this over the break so it didn't get rusty.