Inspiration (sort of) and more

Yesterday I finished The Law of Nines, which I thoroughly enjoyed. In the last thirty or so pages Jax's last name is finally disclosed - although I must admit, at first it didn't occur to me that she necessarily had one (it should have) - and I really should have guessed her last name. It makes so much sense and brings so much of the story full-circle that I should have known, but I didn't.

Tuesday, while I was at work I was able to pick up a couple of books I'd reserved at the library that had been returned and were now available for me. After finishing The Law of Nines, I started with one of those, instead of the book I'd had longer. Julie & Julia had enough holds on it that I'll only get it for two weeks - and therefore it's due back before that other book was. I'm not terribly worried about finishing it in time - I'm already almost 2/3 of the way through it. The story it pretty interesting, even if it doesn't always surprise me. I'd seen the book come through at work often enough, but didn't know fully what it was about and didn't worry about finding out at all. Then, I started seeing commercials for the movie based on it, and learning the generals of the story, I wanted to see the movie. Then, after seeing the movie, I had two ideas, both of which have now come through at least somewhat. First, I just had to read the book, so I put a hold on it at RPL. Secondly, I had the urge to start a blog for myself, and following Julie's example a bit, I was going to write about books I've read - one of my passions (if I'd been following her example more, I'd have picked the ALA's top 100 books list or something like that, and vowed to finish all books on it in one year (while having to debate about re-read some or just reading the one's I hadn't yet read) but that seemed a bit too unreasonable, and would prevent my reading whatever caught my eye).

I've been a bit surprised at times at the ways in which the movie differed from the book, but I can see why it did. As I was reading on my break today, I would have preferred to stay and finish reading it, or at least read more of it, but I'm not paid to sit and read books. I was able to get a bit more reading in today than the last few weeks - there wasn't any rain to speak of yet today, so I was able to read on my walks to and from work! Happy day!