Thanks Laila. I hope you enjoy the Library Book. Susan Orlean was a great speaker to hear – so glad I went. The new library is indeed quite a building!

Thanks Laurel: The Oval story is a quick staffer read. You’d probably like it. Since you’re reading the HRC book …. I’m wondering a bit if she’ll run again??

Hi Catherine: I’m guessing Obama hasn’t read The Oval — but who knows. The author’s definitely crazy for the womanizer. I kept wondering who he was too! The Library book sounds good / packed to the gills it seems. Vi does have some beautiful writing in it like Ru. Thx for stopping by.

And all those other comparisons were fun, too.

I am also curious about Vi.

Thanks for sharing…and for visiting my blog.

I loved Ru, so need to check out Vi. I thought her writing was so beautiful.

And yes, you nailed it about From the Corner. I wanted to shake her. Who would go back to a man like that over and over again? I also really want to know who he is! I wonder if Obama read it?

Thanks for your comments JoAnn. The library’s interior is pretty awesome. I still need to explore it more. I usually just go to my small branch of the library nearby. The story of Vi could’ve been more a bit more focused too — it jumps around a bit, but I’m glad I read it. I’d like to read the Bead Girl story. The Oval book is an interesting, light audio, worth checking out.

Vi sounds very good and I’m also interested in the Vietnamese boat peoples’ stories. I just finished a refugee/war memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, about the Rwandan genocide… first I’ve read on the subject. It was an intense book, but I wish it had been told chronologically instead of back and forth between the US and refugee camps.

From the Corner of the Oval might be a good follow-up to that heavier nonfiction.

I admit Ti — that I most often only go to a small branch of the Library closer to my location so I don’t hang out in the new Central Library which to me is huge. I just get my books on Hold and then I’m gone. The old quiet nature of libraries sounds good to me. I hope you get some rain there — but not mudslides! Enjoy Disneyland – maybe there will be less crowds due to the weather?

You are coming to California soon. We are about to have three days of rain although not a drop has fallen and it’s hours overdue. We are hitting Disneyland this Saturday. We don’t mind the rain but driving in it is another thing so I hope we don’t have to.