October 22, 2010 / Leslie

Friday Finds / Blog Hop ~ October 22-25

The Book Blogger Hop, a weekly event hosted by Jen at Crazy For Books, is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! Each week there is a new discussion question for your post. This week’s question is:

“Where is your favorite place to read? Curled up on the sofa, in bed, in the garden?”

My favorite place to read in the warm months is outside on my deck surrounded by my flowers and taking occasional breaks to watch the birds at the feeders. In the cold months I’m inside curled up on the sofa near the fireplace if it’s winter. Unfortunately a lot of my reading time has to take place on the train traveling to and from my job in the city.

What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share your FRIDAY FINDS! This weekly event is hosted by Should Be Reading.

Something new from Audrey Niffenegger, The Night Bookmobile. A graphic novel about one women’s obsessive search for her disappearing library. I’m intrigued.

First serialized as a weekly column in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing library on wheels that contains every book she has ever read. Seeing her history and most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. But her search turns into an obsession, as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and memories.

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey caught my eye and ended up on my to read list after I read a review on Bermudaonion’s Weblog. And it has a lovely cover.

A woman, confined to her bed, watches a snail, first on her night stand, then in a terrarium next to the bed. The limited world of the snail mirrors the limitations of her own and the reader learns, along with the author, about a creature either despised for its presence in the garden or admired for its taste with beurre blanc—but is otherwise rather a mystery. What follows is an oddly compelling story of a woman who finds companionship and beauty in the most unexpected of creatures.