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Swan Song by Robert McCammon, another long one in the 900 page range, is closer to a realistic "the world is ending" book then the Left Behind books I am currently reading, but why is so much of this literature anti-Russia?  Russia is the ultimate bad guy, isn't he/she?  I think Russia is a woman, right?  Countries seem to be women- "Motherland" and all that.  Any way, I am starting to feel bad for Russia but then I remember they "rigged the 2016 election" and Hollywood has programmed me that all Russians are villains----< insert sarcasm>----- but seriously the cliche is weighing me down. I did have a great "mom time off" with this book though.  I walked down to my local pizza place, bought a pizza Kevin McCallister style, and ate and read in PEACE while reading about war and starvation (ironic?).  Any way, this is obviously a well loved book but less obvious is that it came from the library.  This book will go in the "meh...

Whoa!  We are finally winding down to the last 4 books.  I decided to just wait till the kids were in school instead of rushing these last books to end on time.  The next episode of The Great American Read is not scheduled to air till September 11 so I have an extra week to get a few more posts in.  Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a book at one time I thought wasn't a real book because of the movie.  I was naive and dumb.  But now I am really excited to know this book is on the list and I will get to read it some day.  This was my first PG-13 movie and yes, I was 13.  My parents were pretty protective so I was raised fairly sheltered.  I loved the movie and as of today all 3 of the movies are streaming on Netflix because now we also have Jurassic World .  But getting back to the book- I was able to read for about 30 min. and it is instantly engaging.  This book will likely be in the top 10 books from the list I am most e...

I wanted to save one of my favorites for near the last- not just because it always comes last on the list in alphabetical order- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.  I can totally understand why people would hate this book.  The characters are intensely insane and horrible.  This is the only book I personally love but know completely how awful Catherine and Heathcliff are as human beings.  I read this book for English my senior year.  I have not reread it for fear of loosing the spark this book lit in me.  This book was so elegantly dark and twisted.  I had heard nothing quite like it ever since even though there has to be more Gothic literature like it.  This one holds a special place for me as a book I was emotionally invested with and loved to listen to my teacher talk about.  I think it was the writing style and descriptive passages that drew me in as well as the movie version. When I knew the whole series of Harry Potter was being...

Twilight by Stephenie Meyers (that is a weird way to spell STEPHANIE) is a book I thought I would NEVER read.  Not only am I not really into supernatural beings (vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc) but I am even less into supernatural "love/stalker" stories.  Just out of curiosity I tried to watch the movie- because I thought I MIGHT read the book if it had more of a plot then "plain Jane falls for sparkly butt vampire plus random werewolves" but no, there wasn't really any other plot!  There isn't a mystery.  There isn't much of a struggle except- "I want to bite you, but I totally love you"- gag me with a fork!!  The only reason I want to read it now is so that I can legitimate make fun of it and check it off the list .  THIS is the Twilight for me.     When I watched the movie, I was constantly saying, "Did they just say those things?  Did those words just come out of their mouths?!?!"  The dialogue is cringe worthy so I can...

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a book that sounds surprisingly similar to Jane Eyre .  As I looked over a couple reviews this sounds like a book I might like.  I am kinda lost as to what else to say about it.  It is one of about 20 on the list that I had never heard of before.  I have a long way to go till I get to well read.  I am looking forward to reading this book in the future. 

This is a post that will not do this book justice- at all- but you need to know I LOVE Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.  I didn't fall in love with Jane Austen till I was in college.  I was actually really intimidated by her.  She was too high brow for me until I took the time to read her work.  A friend suggested I start with Sense and Sensibility .  But I still can't read Austen without being alone in a quiet place or maybe light piano music in the background.  What really clenched my love for Austen's work were the movie adaptions, though, and it really helped that I found out I share her birthday (December 16th).  I have so many reading goals for the future but one of them has been to have a Jane Austen Year in which I would primarily read all her works and see how many adaptions and biographies or sequels I could read.  I don't know when this will be but it WILL happen. #VOTEPridePrej At my sister-in-law's Regency Themed Wedd...

Just a few days ago I went to the library for the last few books for this project knowing that I couldn't really start a new book on the list while still working on my Popsugar Challenge this year but my little girls wanted to play at the park so I told them to pick one of the books I could read while they played.  Lucy picked Watchers by Dean Koontz.  Right away the character is packing some Oreos so that meant I had to grab some mini ones because I like those a little better.  I have never read a Dean Koontz novel.  I don't know much about him but he has written a lot of books.  This one is a suspense novel with a super dog- hope that is not as cheesy as it sounds.