What a weird couple of weeks. I have been so absorbed into books that I am not sure how I’ve made it to Friday. It is so funny how the week goes by in a flash. So the last three weeks, I have spent my extra time reading. I have read the first three Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Dear John, and PS I Love You. I couldn’t tell you which has been my favorite. I really liked the Percy Jackson books since they are so much like Harry Potter. Dear John was amazing. The point that they made in the book was so Great! If you read it, there are a couple of bad paragraphs that should have been left out. PS I love You is the one I finished last night…. Or this morning… at 6:30. This was so good, except they had to use all sorts of words that were not needed at all.

Since PS I Love You is the last book I read, I’ll give a summary and tell you what I liked so much about it. The story is about a women grieving for her husband who just passed away at age 30 from a brain tumor. Before her husband passed away, he mailed a package to her parents which held notes with a task to do on it. There were nine notes, one for each month left in that year. When she receives the package, she slowly begins to recover from her husband’s death. It was such an amazing book, just the ending was lame. The author of this book did a great job of making the sad moments not too sad. Often when I cried in the book, I was laughing also. There was one section in the book where I had to muffle my laughs under a pillow. Kyler just sat on the bed and rolled his eyes at me and tried to tell me that people were sleeping in other apartments around us, as it was midnight.

The book Dear John lives up to its title. Although this book also made me cry, it is not the reason you would think. It is not because the “soul mates” of the book break up, but because of another relationship that takes place between a father and a son. Although its not a “Happily ever after” Story, at the end of the book, you feel complete. I have several friends at work trying to read this book, they all say that they cant get past the first few chapters about the father’s daily routine, if you are reading this book, keep pushing past that, but remember what it says. The book is not really about finding romance, its more about friends helping each other through life, helping others understand what another person may be going through. I guess that’s the real reason why I like the story so much.
Than Percy Jackson and the Olympians. . . Oh dear. . . poor Percy is a ‘half-blood’, half human and half Greek god. This book is done if first person and Percy’s commentary of what is going in the story makes you cry from laughing too much. The series main plot is to find which half-blood will turn the tables and either save or destroy Olympus, the place of the Greek gods. Each book in the series ahs its own plot that helps develop Percy for this task. . . So in some ways its like Harry Potter, just you know Harry is going to destroy the Dark Lord eventually. :D
So, that is what my life has been the last couple of weeks, I have been ready books basically daily. . . and the sad part about it is, my brain doesn’t adjust really well to the “real world.” For the past weeks I have been driving myself CRAZY with my need to narrate my own life story. . . for example, at work today here is what my brain was doing.

As I stood in at the drive through drink stand at work, I realized how tired I was. Why had I made the choice to stay up all night and finish that stinkin book! I can’t focus any more. I reached for my drink and stared out the window at the Logan temple for the next couple of minutes mindlessly sipping my Lemonade.

Yeah, I know, not normal. I really do think I’m writing my life story in first person as I go! I really do narrate what I’m doing as I am doing it, I’m not exaggerating, I really think . . . “I reached for my drink. . . “ I am really starting to drive myself CRAZY with this. I need to stop.

So moving on from my, I’m going insane bit, what is the next book I should read, Any ideas? I’ve checked out the book “My Sister’s Keeper,” but the first page about how her first memory in life is trying to kill her sister, I don’t think I’m in the mood for a tragedy.