This is a monthly car­ni­val from the won­der­ful peo­ple at 5MinutesForBooks.
You can par­tic­i­pate pretty much how­ever you want as long as your post is some­what related to books. You can post a pic­ture of your list of books to be read. You can review a book you read last month. You can make a list of books you hope to read this month. You can list the books you hope that Santa will leave under your tree or in your stock­ing. It’s really up to you! It’s def­i­nitely one of my favorite posts of the month. I enjoy going through the other posts and read­ing what oth­ers are rec­om­mend­ing and read­ing. Gen­er­ally, I try to visit every web­site listed. I don’t always leave a com­ment, but I think I usu­ally get through all of the peo­ple who leave their infor­ma­tion in the Mr. Linky in the first 3–4 days after the car­ni­val is posted.

So, on to my read­ing list. Since Jaosn and I are not get­ting each other Christ­mas presents, I don’t have a large list of books I’m hop­ing to unwrap in the next sev­eral days. I have a few though that I have been work­ing on for a while and would like to fin­ish. I also have a cou­ple I’ve been mean­ing to start for a while.

To fin­ish:

Eat. Pray. Love by Eliz­a­beth Gilbert– I find this book inter­est­ing, although I almost exclu­sively dis­agree with every­thing she says in her Pray sec­tion. I started it quite a while ago, and it’s been my slow and steady book for those times when I have a short amount of time to read. Her chap­ters are short and eas­ily manageable.

In Defense of Food by Michael Pol­lan– It seems a lit­tle ridicu­lous that we need to defend food. Pol­lan traces the his­tory of the nutri­tion­ism move­ment and the desire of peo­ple to know exactly what they should or should not eat to a point where it’s bro­ken down into nutri­ents. Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.

To read this month:

Some­thing Bor­rowed by Emily Griffin

Some­thing Blue by Emily Griffin

and hope­fully any of the four Book­Mooch books I’ve got com­ing in the next cou­ple weeks!