good god it is 40s style boppy big band babbling night on the bux music box. if there's anything worse than jazz, it's boppy babble.

so i finished all the harry potters for the third time, and it's hard to start another book after that sort of immersion. not that i don't have some good choices.

FORD COUNTY by john grisham. my old man gave me this selection of short stories. i don't usually enjoy short stories and when he gave it to me it was with the disclaimer that the person who helped him select it said she doesn't usually enjoy short stories but that she really enjoyed this collection. i believe i have read everything john grisham has published except a christmas story of some sort. so, FORD COUNTY has promise.

THE DISAPPEARING SPOON by sam kean. i picked this out the other day at b&n. we were there for just a few mins and i was rushing to make a selection. can't leave without buying something! why didn't i go find the new angie sage or get that alkaline trio cd i've been wanting? well, why the hell do i do anything i do. so, i was forgetting my entire wishlist and going to the science section where i like to hang out and pretend i am a scientist, which the b&n science section is great for because it has all sorts of pretendy-trendy science books. this one looked intriguing - great cover, great tagline. so i purchased it and have been carrying it around in my bag.

JANE EYRE by charlotte brontë. baby einstein (who is not really much of a baby anymore) had this assigned for summer reading and said he actually enjoyed it. he went so far as to recommend it. he said something along the lines of "for that kind of book it wasn't too bad". a glowing recommendation, no? ergo, i downloaded a free copy on nook on my iphone, so that i will have it always handy for those quick between-other-stuff times when you really wish you had a book with you but a book won't fit in your pocket. i was thinking maybe i could get it underway and read it in addition to a different, separate, actual paper book. see, i could read the paper book in some settings, such as on the train, and the ebook in others, such as on the pot. seeing as how i spend much more time on pots than on trains, i am not sure how this will work out. you'll be the first to know. (this is a terrible cover, isn't it? almost as bad as the FORD COUNTY cover. poor plain jane!)

THE NIGHT CIRCUS by erin morgenstern. this is the free starbux download of the week. they used to just do music, but now they do books and stuff. nice cover, huh? much better than the FORD COUNTY cover. sheesh, that is a horrible cover. it would (obviously) be another ebook in the arsenal for on-the-pot sessions. "obviously" one does not download paper. although the ability to download paper would occassionally be handy while on the pot...

THE FOUNTAINHEAD by ayn rand. this is the Important, Ambitious, Real Book that i was planning to read this autumn. do i dare?