Oh Phoo

You might note that my last post was Monday, February 21st. This wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary except that, it was in that post that I expressed my resolve to post more often. Well, after that I clicked "Publish Post", shut down my computer and headed to bed. The next morning when I went to power up the computer, check the weather, e-mail, etc., I was writing my first e-mail of the day when my keyboard did a, then rather annoying, in retrospect hilarious and fun, thing. Every time I typed the "h" key only a dot would appear and sometimes after typing the "h" key other letters would be influenced, for example my "w" would appear as a sigma, or my vowels would have non-English accents over them. A friend said it best "Jamie your e-mail is a great combination of Yiddish and cockney! See you when you get here!" She was certainly right. But, all has been remedied - so I'm back to post away!

I've recently joined a book group with a really great component - reader services advisory. This is an important topic for me because it is something that I am asked in my professional work and a very difficult skill to do well. This book group has decided to choose books for each month based on the Dewey Decimal classification system. But that got me thinking. I just happened to have finished three books this week, my on the go non-fiction book, my at home fiction book and an audio-book. This has never happened before and left me reeling as to what to read next! I decided that instead I would like to read about Ireland for the month of March. In a rush to begin a new audio-book I started the next one in my audio library, which happened to be The Devil Wears Prada, completely non-Ireland but...oh well. I am enjoying this audio book and it has spurred ideas for April and given me time to find The Story of Lucy Gault, which I am also looking forward to listening to this month.  For other reading about Ireland, instead of purchasing new books- always a temptation, I decided to "start" with the only  two books about Ireland that I already own but have not yet read; Tales of the Elders of Ireland, the translation that I have is by Ann Dooley and Harry Roe, and Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales by Alwyn and Brinley Rees.  Perhaps this will segue nicely into a month of books about Wales, which I have a lot more material about, for April. I suppose we'll wait and see!

Please send along any recommendations for fiction books about Ireland. I've already read all of the "Irish Country" books by Patrick Taylor - wonderful reads if you've not read them yet!