Day Two and I'm still down in the count.

And the lists keep on coming...

My fabulous friend Victoria--through whom I am vicariously reliving my younger years because she's three times as smart as me and therefore going to be 12 times as successful--answered the call not one but three times, revising her offerings until they were just perfect.

The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Quest To Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible, by A.J. Jacobs
What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq, by Rob Simpson
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
Red Azalea, by Anchee Min
Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Patterson

I have read two books on this list but am very interested in reading more. Particularly in Slaughterhouse 5, which I should have already read, and in The Moorchild, which I've never heard of but suspect will like a great deal. Historical fiction about Ireland? Yeah, I'm there.

The next responder was Ellen, my boss, who is both a mentor and a friend.

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter
The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins

One. I've read one of these. See, I told you I wasn't as well-read as I'd like to be! This project could not have come at a better time.

You see, currently I'm reading Alison Plowden's Two Queens in One Isle: The Deadly Relationship of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. I wanted to better understand Elizabeth's hesitance to execute the dishonored younger queen and the choices that Mary made to lead her to that fate. Just one of the aspects of Elizabeth I that I am eager to discover, which accounts for the 16 or so books I have on the subject. I think next on that list will be Elizabeth I, CEO by Alan Axelrod.

I've gone ahead and ordered The Moorchild and The Bone People from paperbackswap.com. I also ordered Byron, Selected Poetry and Letters, completely on a whim. I am a nut for stuff like that.

If you haven't joined paperbackswap.com, do it. It's a great way to send books you no longer need or want on to other homes while also finding books you want or need. Check out their About Us portion to see what they're all about. In these lovely economic times, it's quite a bargain.

Happy reading!

Erin