Guess what?!? 10 more days until I move to Toronto.
In other news, it's been a while since I updated you on Reading Challenge #4 a.k.a. rc-4. Almost 6 months in and 7 books down. Not bad, but I'm going to have to kick it up a notch to reach my goal of 20 books in 2012.
My latest read (which I finished this morning) was If You Have to Cry, Go Outside by Kelly Cutrone -- Fashion PR Queen of New York: known for dressing in black, speaking her mind, and appearing on a variety of reality television shows, from "The Hills" to her own, "Kell On Earth".
The book wasn't what I expected. I had been unsuccessfully reading Mockingjay, the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. I had really hoped to read the trilogy without stopping, but I regret to say that Mockingjay simply did not hook me. The first book, The Hunger Games was fascinating throughout, hard to put down. Catching Fire was so far from what I expected that it kept me engaged the whole time. Mockingjay, on the other hand, was such a change of pace (read: slow) and just a whole other kind of story that I couldn't push through the first third. It's now gathering dust on my kitchen table. I'll try to get back to it next, but I won't force it. I will finish it soon enough (everyone says it's worth pushing through for the sake of the ending), but if I'm not engaged, I'm not engaged.
Anyway, back to KC's "memoir". First of all, I'd been reading The Hunger Games, so moving from that to a PR powerhouse's memoir, if you want to call it that, was a tough transition. Secondly, feeling somewhat well-versed in spiritual language and ideals, it felt a bit rich to have spiritual advice coming from someone who I've seen straight-up call someone on their eating disorder in the middle of a bar on "The City". However, when I got past my skepticism, I started to realize that Ms. Cutrone genuinely had a lot to offer. She tells her own story - which is tumultuous and comes with all sorts of twists and turns - interspersed with both business-related advice as well as spiritual suggestions. It's got a good flow, a fresh tone, and I actually got a lot out of it. Definitely worth a read if you're looking for something different and light. We'll see what I get to reading next.
rc-4 so far...
- What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- If You Have to Cry, Go Outside by Kelly Cutrone
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