Monday, June 23, 2008
math is not my thing...
I am not as far in to my reading totals as I had hoped.. I am only at roughly 3,600 pages.. I thought I was closer to 5,000 already. Oh well, with trips to the beach and the mountains coming up, I should have no problems getting to 6,000 pages by the end of the summer... Fall is a tough time to read. Producing and directing a musical sucks the life out of me so reading for pleasure does not usually happen..
summer reading...
Ok.. I haven't marked down my reading in awhile and I do still have my goal of 10,000 pages for the year.. I have read more in the last week that i have since before the spring play rehearsals started.. I'll work my way back with my books.
I just finished 2 books this weekend- The Hunt and The Prey by Allison Brennan. Both are murder mysteries with strong women in the protagonist role. While the books do not all have exactly the same characters, they have overlapping characters and are part of a trilogy of books Brennan ha written. I know I'll finish the last one before summer is over. The number of pages for each was about 380.
I also read 7th Heaven by Patterson.. the newest release from the Women's Murder Club mysteries... I really wasn't impressed because the good action that I have seen in the other books wasn't in this one.. This book had 375 pages in it. That means I have read almost 1200 pages in less than a week.
Last week I read Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulk (written as Ian Fleming). This was surprisingly good although there were some slow parts to it. I hadn't read any Bond novels in awhile, so I enjoyed this one. It had 304 pages.
Last month, Rick gave me the Maximum Ride:Final Warning as post-play reading material.. I read it as I went to Philadelphia for our anniversary.. I wasn't impressed with this Patterson novel either.. He left his usual formula for good action and opted to preach on global warming.. I am sure he was trying to teach a new generation about living greener, but it didn't seem to fit in this series.. This book had 272 pages..
My final book in my recent reading is R is for Ricochet. It is another of the Sue Grafton Murder mysteries. I enjoyed this one because Grafton kept to a workable formula for a good series. This book had 384 pages in it.
I think that 10,000 pages is going to be an easy goal. I am more than half way there now.. I may try to expand my genres for the rest of the year. I have 2 books on my shelf right now..
I just finished 2 books this weekend- The Hunt and The Prey by Allison Brennan. Both are murder mysteries with strong women in the protagonist role. While the books do not all have exactly the same characters, they have overlapping characters and are part of a trilogy of books Brennan ha written. I know I'll finish the last one before summer is over. The number of pages for each was about 380.
I also read 7th Heaven by Patterson.. the newest release from the Women's Murder Club mysteries... I really wasn't impressed because the good action that I have seen in the other books wasn't in this one.. This book had 375 pages in it. That means I have read almost 1200 pages in less than a week.
Last week I read Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulk (written as Ian Fleming). This was surprisingly good although there were some slow parts to it. I hadn't read any Bond novels in awhile, so I enjoyed this one. It had 304 pages.
Last month, Rick gave me the Maximum Ride:Final Warning as post-play reading material.. I read it as I went to Philadelphia for our anniversary.. I wasn't impressed with this Patterson novel either.. He left his usual formula for good action and opted to preach on global warming.. I am sure he was trying to teach a new generation about living greener, but it didn't seem to fit in this series.. This book had 272 pages..
My final book in my recent reading is R is for Ricochet. It is another of the Sue Grafton Murder mysteries. I enjoyed this one because Grafton kept to a workable formula for a good series. This book had 384 pages in it.
I think that 10,000 pages is going to be an easy goal. I am more than half way there now.. I may try to expand my genres for the rest of the year. I have 2 books on my shelf right now..
Saturday, June 21, 2008
forever...
Forever...
the amount of time it has been since I have blogged....
how long I have been in love with rick !!!
how long it seems I have been trying to catch up on laundry...
i am thinking alot about my life with rick today.. in a few hours we will go to a wedding in the same church we were married in.. for a friend who was a child the age of my own children when we were married...
i remember i met him while doing cross word puzzles between classes.. i could match him in crosswords, but even then couldn't match him in word jumbles!!
i remember going to the amy grant concert in the middle of finals..
and spring break with Jenny and Jeff and Debbie and Janet and Stephen...
i remember trying to study while listening to him on the radio on sunday afternoons.. and having him proofread all my term papers..
i remember when I realized i was in love.. and even more so when i came home from japan and knew i wanted to spend my life with him...
i remember him getting down on one knee in my apartment and how the peanut butter pie never got eaten that night...
i remember our first argument in front of his mother... over our china pattern ("that's fine" was not the right answer)
i remember him singing to me at our rehearsal dinner and driving through the rain storm on our wedding night..
i remember having as much fun watching Braves baseball on the couch as adventuring out during our honeymoon..
i remember writing thank you notes.. and checking to make sure rick hadn't too much of a smart aleck on them.. (and no, "thanks for the crystal dish. our dog is enjoying eating out of it" is not an appropriate thank you)
i remember arguing of which peanut butter and ketchup to buy...
and i remember how much i love him and how it has grown each and every day.....
the amount of time it has been since I have blogged....
how long I have been in love with rick !!!
how long it seems I have been trying to catch up on laundry...
i am thinking alot about my life with rick today.. in a few hours we will go to a wedding in the same church we were married in.. for a friend who was a child the age of my own children when we were married...
i remember i met him while doing cross word puzzles between classes.. i could match him in crosswords, but even then couldn't match him in word jumbles!!
i remember going to the amy grant concert in the middle of finals..
and spring break with Jenny and Jeff and Debbie and Janet and Stephen...
i remember trying to study while listening to him on the radio on sunday afternoons.. and having him proofread all my term papers..
i remember when I realized i was in love.. and even more so when i came home from japan and knew i wanted to spend my life with him...
i remember him getting down on one knee in my apartment and how the peanut butter pie never got eaten that night...
i remember our first argument in front of his mother... over our china pattern ("that's fine" was not the right answer)
i remember him singing to me at our rehearsal dinner and driving through the rain storm on our wedding night..
i remember having as much fun watching Braves baseball on the couch as adventuring out during our honeymoon..
i remember writing thank you notes.. and checking to make sure rick hadn't too much of a smart aleck on them.. (and no, "thanks for the crystal dish. our dog is enjoying eating out of it" is not an appropriate thank you)
i remember arguing of which peanut butter and ketchup to buy...
and i remember how much i love him and how it has grown each and every day.....
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