Books

I'm a HUGE advocate of my county library system. I think you can tell that if you read my blog much. I refuse to spend money on books when I can save that money and get them at the library for free. Helps my budget, helps them. I mean, come on I've read 104 books this year if I had bought all of those books can you imagine how much money I would have spent?

So with that said...my hubby is planning to take me to Hawaii next year to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. I have been researching online and reading any Hawaii travel book I can find at the library for months now. The problem with that is that most of the time they are already a year or so old, so some of the information is already out of date.

I had someone recommend Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook by Andrew Doughty to me to purchase. Granted it is a 2007 edition it's supposed to be a super good book. So I bit the bullet and ordered it.

That just got me in trouble though because while looking for that one I found these two new editions, that I couldn't resist ordering too!!

1. Top Maui Restaurants 2008 From Thrifty to Four Star: Indispensable Advice from Experts Who Live, Play & Eat on Maui by James Jacobson & Molly Jacobson

2. Fodor's Maui 2009

I can't wait until these arrive, I'll have some good reading all winter, as I'm sure I'll read them over & over, with highlighter in hand soaking in all I can before we say Aloha!!

Handle With Care

Wow!

I managed to read the newest Jodi Picoult book in two days. Nothing odd about that I guess, I usually do get sucked into her books like that.

I was so shocked by the ending, not what I was expecting at all.

Do you read Jodi Picoult? Have you read this newest one? What did you think?

By the way on my 100 challenge I've completed something like 34 or 35 for the year so far. I've been picking up some books that once I get them home are actually two books re-released in one. I need to pay more attention because they only count as one but if I had checked them both out I would get to count them as two. I mean I read them regardless so why not get to count both? I've got to pay more attention ;) And I'm still reading about Hawaii too.....planning, dreaming. ;0)

Travel Guides

These seem to be taking up some of my valuable reading time lately.

We're discussing a trip to Hawaii, just the two of us, perhaps in the fall of 2010. So in this discussion I've become a little um.....obsessed with reading all the books I can find on Hawaii, particularly Maui (we think that is the island we've decided on) and watching all the shows on TV that I can find about it too!!

Right now I have three Hawaii travel guides going back to the library tomorrow, and four more still here to browse through for the next few weeks. I've read them but I keep going back and reading some sections again and again. Oh and who can forget the beautiful photographs!! LOL!!