Tampa Book Buzz

lunch hour library visit

I’m bored.  I feel blah.  I don’t feel like working or blogging or running errands or returning calls…all I want to do is lie in bed and read and watch TV.  Maybe I’ve got spring fever.  Maybe I’m having a midlife crisis. I told The Husband this morning that I’ve been bitten by a tsetse fly and have contracted sleeping sickness – thereby rendering him responsible for all bills, groceries and laundry from now on – but for some strange reason he didn’t believe me.  Just like Francie in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, I need a pickle day.

I went to the library on my lunch break yesterday to perk myself up.  Even though I have a stack of books at home to read, I checked out a few more.  I enjoy strolling the library’s aisles and selecting books at random, based only on their titles.  Wacky and striking book titles are entertaining, as well as a shrewd marketing move.  I checked out four books that I know nothing about.  I hope they’re as interesting as their titles:

• Knitting Under the Influence by Claire Lazebnik
• Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps:The Rise and Risk of the New Conservative Hate Culture by Gerry Spence
• Money, A Memoir by Liz Perle
• When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten

I do feel a little bit better, thanks.