@Li li:
I looked up The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (apparently both titles you gave are correct) and it looks like a charming story. I may give it a chance.
It's the first of a trilogy, have you read all three?


The Handmaid's Tale pretentious?
Hmmm....
I suppose it is. I would even go further: probably all Atwood's writing is quite pretentious.
I do sometimes like that quality in a writer :D

Actually I'm now reading her first novel (The Edible Woman), and it appears to be a trait from right the beginning of her career.

the Handmaid's Tale is somewhere down on my TBR. I wonder what I'll think once I get to it XD

You never know until you do

I wanted to read it after my mom did, but I don't even know if she still has her copy (she usually either loans it, gives it away, or donates when she's done reading).

I'm sure you can get it in the library. It's a popular enough title, quite a classic already.

There is this event going on in my highschool.
Students and teachers alike were proposed to give away books, but packing them as a gift and just giving a hint ("it's a romantic story", "perfect for readers up to 14!", whatever) so other people in the highschool can pick them.

My students were not very impressed when I proposed them.
But I can't participate either because I don't keep my copies either - I sell them or give them - unless I really really want to keept them - and then I won't be giving them away ever!

Bookswaps are fun events for me, but I don't know if anyone else has been or enjoyed them?

It sounds a little like the gift event, but more open and with more choices since nothing is hidden....

That is very true.

Oh that sounds like fun, but when I was in high school (10+ years ago now) a lot of my classmates didn't read unless needing to read a book was a class requirement. I also had only 41 people in my graduating class lol.

It's pretty much the same.
We have a weekly hour for reading - they can bring any book they want, or pick anything in the high school library - but many of them still read only the mandatory books.
And sometimes even not those ¬¬



Some years ago I joined BookCrossing. That was quite fun.
But then I started moving more and more far, and I gave up the whole thing. Just sold or gifted any other book I was not going to re-read.

My favorite thing about having a house is being able to have all the books I want.


Speaking of books. Currently I'm reading "Love Lies Bleeding", by Edmund Crispin.
It has so many vocabulary words I'm not familiar with, that I'm probably going to end up reading it twice. Once, stopping all the time to look stuff up, and once straight through.

I hate looking up words while I am reading.
Well, one or two is fine, but if it happens too often it just kills the fun for me :|
So I usually ignore those words I don't know (specially if I can make sense of the sentence anyway) unless they appear too often.