1.) Laina Says The Darndest Things
On our way to the Children’s Museum Saturday I insisted on listening to music and flipped off Heathcliff playing on the DVD player.
After about 15 minutes of me gracing James Taylor with my heavenly back up I turned it down to ask Maile a question, but was quickly reprimanded by Laina:
Laina: Turn a music loud!!
Me: What??
Laina: Tur-tur-turn it loud so so so I can hear it so I can dance in my head.
I wonder what she’s picturing in her head when she’s dancing up there…
Laina’s not the only song bird to grace our household. Watch out Brit-Brit…
2.) Date Night
Pat and I saw Stepbrothers Saturday night and I LOVED it. Basically it’s about a 40 year old man who lives with his mom. The mom marries a man who has a 40 year old son living with HIM and they all move in together.
I don’t know at what point my level of humor stopped maturing with the rest of me, but I was dying laughing in a theatre filled with fifteen year old boys. I’m not big on “potty” humor and though there was a lot of that…Will Ferrell and John Reilly captured being a teenager perfectly.
3.) Twilight
I’m on page 85.
So far so good. I’m intrigued…I’ll give you Twilight Groupies that much. I finally cracked down and bought the dang thing for 9 bucks at Target because I can tell this is going to take me awhile.
I know what you’re thinking: WHAT!?! Not finish the book in a WEEKEND!?!
I know I know. I’m lame. I don’t read like I used to. You guys keep me busy. I can’t even begin to tell you what you’ve done to my tv addiction.
Baseball is on as I type this…let that be a clue to you.
Anyways, I don’t think I’ve mentioned my elaborate book reading system to all ya’ll?
Allow me to do so.
First I am obsessed with books. LOVE new books. Love the SMELL of new books. Love the GLOSS of new books. Love the VIRGINITY of new books. Just plain love them.
But I don’t buy them.
Just like movies I have a hard time reading the same book more than once. So if I buy it, it just ends up taking up space.
Enter library.
I LOVE the library. Love the SMELL. Love the PEACE. Love the rows and rows of hidden treasures. But most of all I love the holds list.
When I see or hear about a book I want to read I jot down the title on old receipts and toss them into my purse. Then I enter the titles into my books list file and one by one they make it to the holds list.
Right now there are # of books on my books list. Only # of them are actually on hold because my book reading skills have taken a serious nose dive.
When a book has been completed I document it along with the date it was finished and a score between 1 and 10.
That way I never forget what I’ve read.
In 2006 I read #59 books.
In 2007 I read #12 books. (I blame Kainoa)
So far for 2008 I’ve read #6 books. (I blame you)
So I just finished Change Of Heart.
About a guy sent to death for killing a little girl and her cop father. He wants to donate his heart to the little girls surviving sister and drama entails. It came highly recommended. It was good…but not a ten. I give it a 7.4.
Book rating rule number one is that no piece of fiction will receive a ten. Period.
Because then I read these incredible true accounts of people surviving war and escaping death and I just wouldn’t feel right putting them on the same scale as The Kite Runner or some other great work of fiction.
For example this lady:
Malika Oufkir! Her father was executed for attempting to assassinate the king Morocco, and she and her family were imprisoned for two decades. TWO DECADES! They dug their way out of their prisons with spoons and covered the hole they were digging with some kind of paste they concocted. True story!
See what I mean. Anyone who lived through THAT deserves to sit a little higher on the shelf than Jane Eyre. Just my opinion. (but oh Jane Eyre is magnificent!)
I’m rambling. See how I’ve missed you!
Back to Twilight. Bella is currently turning down invites to the Spring Dance left and right. She’s not interested in dancing and is too caught up trying to figure out why Edward hates her to care either way.
What could Bella possibly have done to offend Edward? Why is Edward so reclusive? How will they get beyond this hatefulness he is exhibiting towards her? Could it be it’s because he’s a vampire and every time he sees her he wants to suck her blood?
Gross. I hope that’s not why.
I totally plan on spoiling this book for all of you.
