summer cleanup, summer reading

Last night, I was bitten by the clean-up bug. I spent the better part of 5 hours doing laundry and ironing, putting away yarn and fabric, hanging clothes, cleaning up after our niece's visit, making tomorrow's lunches, and generally making our apartment look somewhat more presentable.

I also did a quick clean-out of our bookshelf. My husband and I are both big readers, but we rarely buy fiction. Instead, we borrow books from friends, family, and libraries. We do have a small collection of sentimental favorites, which we keep (and move from apartment to apartment, and hopefully soon to a house of our own). We also have some books acquired as gifts or in "emergency airport purchases", but once we read them, we don't often keep them.

So, that said ... would anyone like the following books?
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld)
Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Family Baggage (Monica McInerney)
The Virgin Blue (Tracy Chevalier)

If you want one of these, send me an email (address in the sidebar). I'd be happy to send it off to a good home ...