Books: Eat This, Not That: Supermarket Survivial Guide

Eat This, Not That: Supermarket Survival Guide. Since I've been on a recent health kick, its only natural that I've been trying to find whatever info I can about healthier food options. I read the 1st Eat This, Not That book but since I don't eat out all that often, it was more of a novelty than really useful. But this is exactly what I needed. Not only does it have a bunch of info about choosing healthier versions of popular foods but it also has recipes, best salad bar choices, when fruits & veggies are in season & how to pick & store them, and things to watch out for on nutrition labels.
This really is a great book. And while I would've preferred even more eat this, not that examples, I do realize that there is only so much you can fit on a page. Buy this & use it as a reference book.

Books: Shutter Island

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
"The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new ­partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems." taken from Amazon.com

I picked this up because the movie is going to take forever to be available on my Netflix queue. It's a good story but not sure I liked the book. The writing style was a bit confusing & hard to follow since it wasn't from any one person's point of view.
Good for the story but the movie might be better

Books: Model Home, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Brava Valentine

Anyone else have a bad habit of giving up on a book halfway through? Think I'm about to do this for the 3rd time in a row now. Sometimes its because the book isn't any good & sometimes I just get distracted. These are the books I recently started & didn't finish:Model Home by Eric Puchner. This book was ok but I lost interest halfway through. It's about a family who's father took a big financial risk & ended up losing everything. The kids are a bit weird but nothing super interesting. I just didn't really care what happened to any of them.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Now this is a good book, although kind of weird. It grabbed me right from the beginning. The only reason I didn't finish it was because it was a library book, one of several I borrowed at the same time. It was the 1st one I started not realizing how long it would take me to read. I started to get antsy and started one of the other books too & then I ran out of loan time. But I do plan on getting more of his books because I really did enjoy the parts of it I got to read.

Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani. This is the book I'm currently reading & while I haven't quite decided if I'm going to give up on it yet, it's likely. I know this author has a loyal following but I just don't feel a connection with the main character.

I'm not sure whether this is a personal fault or if its a good thing that I don't spend time on things that don't hold my attention. I probably would've given up on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo if the reviews weren't so good but I managed to stick it out & ended up really enjoying it. Maybe I'll just try harder with the popular, culturally important books & blame the authors for the rest. lol