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Woman Reading by Pablo Picasso ( img src ) Yes, March was a mad month, both in good and not-so-good ways. So, March was a month of stringent deadlines, a lot of which I am still laboring under. However, it was also a month of family and celebration. My son celebrated his 7th birthday and my sister got married, all in the span of one week. Consequently, family came home from distant lands (some from local provinces and others from far-off countries) to celebrate with us. And, I gotta say, I love family reunions. Now that I think about it, I don't even live in the same hemisphere as some of my immediate family, whom I love very much, so I try to drop everything so we all can hang out together. Anyway, what all this means, too, is that I haven't been making much progress in my reading goals (not to mention my blogging, but I think you can tell). No matter, though. This is one time where I'm comfortable putting reading in the back seat. Although, with my new toy, I thi...

A Woman Reading by Claude Monet ( img src ) Yup, better late than never. My last pos t mentions how busy I've been, hence my apologies for this. I'm still hoping to review some of these books, so here's a list of what I finished last February The Poisonwood Bible   by Barbara Kingsolver (Feb. 2) - heavy and beautiful. Once  by Morris Gleitzman (Feb. 3) - shocking and disappointing The Last Dragonslayer   by Jasper Fford e (Feb. 5) - classic Fforde, but for kids Blue Angel, White Shadow   by Charlson Ong (Feb. 8) - I enjoyed it, I did. One Day   by David Nicholls (Feb. 14) - I actually expected more from this. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight   by Alexandra Fuller (Feb. 19) - Charming, charming memoir of an African childhood. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler   by E. L. Konigsburg (Feb. 22) - a re-read, because I was trying to recall the movie. And what books I acquired last February: A Fine Balanc...

My bookshelf. Top 2 rows are books I've read; bottom two rows are my TBR, except for that half-filled section. Those are books I've read and the empty space is reserved for books I'm going to finish reading. Clean bookshelves, that's what. Life has been extremely busy for the past month, what with all the deadlines at work, planning my son's birthday bash, and cleaning up the house in preparation for the relatives coming for my sister's wedding. Everything got so crazy that I wasn't even inclined to read, so I've only finished one short YA book this month and barely got 12 pages into Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated . Not his fault, I assure you. One thing I'm happy about, though, is that I was able to clean and fix my bookshelf. For the most part, my bookshelf is always a mess, since I kept accumulating books and putting them everywhere, or the kids put their stuff in it, or the kids and I take out stuff and don't pu...