Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Passing time...

I've been reading thangs. I am trying to decide if it's worth it to figure out what is going on in my life when I read a lot, or don't read at all. Is there a pattern? Is it at certain times of the year, certain phases of the moon, P.M.S...(hmm) or just whether there is a good book laying around the house and I have nothing IMPORTANT to do. I am thinking my findings would prove the latter.

Important: playing soccer, doing zumba, meeting up with friends, going somewhere fun with the girlies if the weather is nice...

Not important(apparently, bc I haven't been doing them as of late): cleaning the house, finding constructive things for my kids to do, making nutritious meals that don't come from a bag or box in the freezer...yes there is more but I'll stop to save myself a little dignity.

Things I am grumpy about right now(just to get it off my chest): I have been to contest 2 speeding tickets in less than a week!! I have successfully lost to a system that is worried more about hording my money than if I was really a danger or a threat to anyone on the road. Oh I could go on and on and on! But I won't. Hopefully I can get over it soon...

Onto the subject at hand...books...

I don't know what prompted me to grab this from the shelf, possibly my nearly 2yr old pulling books off the shelves below, I was desperate. I enjoyed this book, it had an interesting story about a lady who experiences an extremely rare case of memory loss. She wakes up practically a different person in a different life. Kinsella is British and so there were some f-bombs, like how I justified myself? Anyways, I was pretty sucked into the story and enjoyed the book.

This was my book club's pick of the month. It was good. Not the kind of book I can't stop blabbering about, but good. It had an interesting story, similar in a way to Hunger Games, not really...but KIND of. It's about a maze:) Intrigued? I can see a lot of people LOVING this book, I kinda liked it.
This book was about an incident that happened in France during WWII. There was a round up of Jews by the french police. Thousands of mostly women and children. It is of course a tragic story, but it's an interesting story. It is a true event that took place during the war but the story is fictional. It was really good.
I got the feeling a few pages into this book that I had read it before, or at least started it...I am still not completely sure. I think I did read it long enough ago that I forgot most of what happens. It's an interesting story about a boy with autism who try's to figure out what happens to his neighbors dog and innocently unravels all sorts of secrets. It's all told from his perspective, which since he is autistic is very interesting.

Maybe the weather will get nicer so I can stop hiding away in my house all day, get out of this funk and do some things on the not important list. Maybe.