I got some new books!

I’m about twenty pages into Cut, and had a really hard time putting it down so that I could get some work done. I’ve read another one of Patricia McCormick’s novels, Sold, which made me fall in love with her writing. Not only does McCormick really research her story, but she also spins very interesting and realistic characters.

Cut is about a young teenage girl who is placed in a residential treatment facility after she begins regularly, compulsively self-harming. I’ve been wanting to read Cut for a while, but every time I visited the bookstore I could only afford one book. Yesterday, I (over)indulged and spent almost $40 on books; in addition to Cut, I also bought The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I now have plenty of crackbooks to keep me happy throughout the next couple of weeks. (Of course, now that I spent all that extra money on books, I suddenly have a bunch of doctors’ appointments to keep and prescriptions to fill. But I’d rather have books and be broke than be broke without books!)

On the Road is about two friends who take a road trip. During my first semester of college, I had to read an excerpt from it and fell in love with Jack Kerouac’s writing. The professor who taught that class has been trying to get me to read the full book ever since.

I’ve heard lots of good things about The Lovely Bones, so I decided to give that one a shot, too. I scoured the store for a copy with the original blue cover, as opposed to the motion picture cover; I don’t want to be seen as a bandwagon jumper if I’m reading it out in public.

I’m really excited to have three new books to read. I’m also reading Thunder and Blood by Stacy Voss. I’m finding that I really enjoy reading a couple of books at a time.

So tell me, what’s in your “To Read” stack?