I'm moving in 16 days to another city. I calculated things last week and this will be my tenth move in just under 11 years (not including the time that I stayed on my friend's floor for three weeks because I was homeless).Moving seems to be in the air this spring. Denise is moving across the country which means packing up her rainbow bookshelves. Iliana announced last week on Bookgirl's Nighstand that she's moving to Austin and now has to pack up all her books. Leila at Bookshelves of Doom bought a house recently and is moving too. We live in different cities (and in my case a different country) but we all have one thing in common - we have a lot of books to pack.

There are legions of book lovers who will search the internet for that out of print book that they just have to get their hands on. It might be a childhood favourite. It might be a book that they've never read before. But they just know that they have to have it. Faber and Faber may be making that search just a little bit easier with the recent announcement of their print on demand service for out of print books.

I've frequently noticed that books travel in circles. I'll read a review at one blog, then it will be on another, and then another, and another and another. They frequently are not the books that will reach the top of the New York Times best books list. But they might make a blogger's list for fun books at the end of the year. One of the books that I've been noticing, and which has just come out in paperback giving it a good shot at beach reads lists, is Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen.

With mother's day just around the corner it seems like a good time to talk about something that's come on to my radar recently - mother-daughter book clubs. It's not something my mother and I ever did, although once I reached a certain age her boxes of Harlequin novels became fair-game for me to raid when I ran out of my own books (for a teenage girl this was fantastic until one day I realized my grandmother also read them). But it's something I think is a really neat idea, and not just because it's a good excuse to read young adult literature.

As someone who loves books and the environment I have to face a hard truth - I kill trees. Lots of trees. I continue to encourage the death of trees for my own entertainment purposes. And even worse, I encourage others to partake in this killing of trees. For awhile there I thought I was going good. There was a publisher, which among other books, published the Canadian versions of the Harry Potter series and they were ancient forest friendly. And you know that was a pretty good idea as the Whomping Willow? Now there's a tree that you whose bad side you want to avoid.

I am a re-reader. For a long time it was out of necessity but there's something nice about rereading books. Not everyone is a rereader though and I was recently asked why I reread books when I already know what is going to happen. I pointed out this individual that they buy DVDs of movies they've already seen and watch them multiple times. People buy television shows on DVD and tivo their favourite series episodes and watch those over and over again. Is there really a different. Nope, there isn't. But if you really do need reasons to reread a book I've got some for you.