GAH

 MOVING.
It is NOT FUN.

Last night (post sitting around and then being rejected for jury duty, barely-pre the beginnings of the sore throat that was a full-blown 100 degree fever when I woke up) I was complaining to D about not knowing where to start packing (one week before move day, awesome job, self) and he said "books." Which is always the obvious answer because the things I have most of are books and clothes/shoes. However, I realized just after doing the cookbooks and food books (two HEAVY boxes of just those) that I was going to run out of boxes really quickly. So, after conferring with R, I decided to make a list of all the library books I haven't read yet, return them to the library over the course of the week, and get them back later, so I don't need to worry about moving them. There were over two grocery bags full of books I haven't read yet. Including one that I have apparently renewed five times - and it's a six month borrow. Yikes.

I also have a grocery bag full of books I've read and haven't written about, so I lugged most of them back today. Since there's no way I will have time to review them until after the move, and by then I just won't, they are, in no particular order:

Brom, The Child Thief - retelling, sort of, of Peter Pan. Surprisingly good. 2009.

Tana French, Broken Harbor - I think I recalled this from myself, whoops. Obviously great. 2012.

Oliver Potzsch, The Hangman's Daughter - okay. 2012 (English translation by Lee Chadeayne)

Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre; and Other Episodes in French Cultural History - so great. 1984. [I had flagged "The Rousseauistic readers of prerevolutionary France threw themselves into texts with a passion we can barely imagine, that is as alien to us as the lust for plunder among Norsemen" (251) and a quote from Marc Bloch "'A good historian resembles the ogre of legend. Wherever he smells human flesh, he knows that there he will find his prey.'" (263)]

Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Sceptic's Adventures in Narnia - really enjoyable. 2008.

Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital - REALLY interesting / engaging / challenging. 2006.