read a book a month in 2008

there has been no time for pleasure fiction book reading. Not that I am complaining, school is far more important. I am loving this class and learning so much. I will get back to the school in the fall. I don;t see any classes that I aam ready to take in the spring and I will then have more than enough opportunity to read for fun. I will instead join the toastmasters club.

So I am still reading The Talisman, and my textbook, Looking Out Looking In about interpersonal and small group communication. Great book and tons to learn.

another Stephen King book but I remember loving this book the first time I read it and I want to read Black House so I only thought it best to re-read this one. I remember how much I enjoyed it the first time. sigh

I haven;t had a lot of time to read lately, it seems like there are a bunch of things going on all the time. But I will make the time for fun. I need to try adn get my school textbook reading done in the end of the week before I head back to wrok so I can just enjoy leisure reading when I am working.

great book with a great message. It is all about our choice. They can take everything from you but in the end it is our choice as to which attitude we are going to take about our circumstances.

the last book of the series! It was amazing, except for the spider baby, I really enjoyed the book and even the ending.

I am ahead of myself. I started a shrt book to bide the time before I start another King book. I should be able to finish it today or tomorrow, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Interesting.

the sixth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King was finished on my birthday. I just started the last book of this series, The Dark Tower.

I am excited, happy to come to an end and anxious to move on to something a little different. I am also a little sad that the characters that I have come to know will no longer be a part of my life.(?) Does that make sense?

the fifth book of the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. It was a great book. I am so pumped up to be this far into a series that I started so long ago. I am on the verge of completing it. I have started the sixth book and there is only one more left after this one. I have an idea of what may be found at the Dark Tower, I am anxious to see the end. (But endings can be so sad, what will take its place? But then it will just go hand in hand with my life. My life as a caregiver to my children is coming to an end. Perhaps learning to deal with smaller endings will make me stronger to deal with bigger endings.) What is the saying? For every ending is just another beginnings end, so we move to a new beginning which will surely have an end as well.

full cirlce.

What a great book, over 700 pages made it a long read but I absolutely loved the story. It was almost a love story. I like how this series is so diverse. It is set in the future but in a world that has moved on yet they are talking about gunslingers and riding horseback. There are connections to the now, and the past and other books. It is really a fantastic series. I started the fifth book tonight, The Wolves of Cala.

The story goes on!

Sitting in the living room and finding myself alone again for the third time this week I felt lonely and depressed with no motivation to kick my own ass up out of the chair. Missing the person who had become my best friend over the lat six months and knowing he is not the right guy for me….but…..misssing his friendship and the time we spent together nnetheless. Amber walked in and sat beside me. It had seemed to happen a lot this week, here showing up at the moment I was feeling wea and wanting to call him. I tried not to talk about it because the subject seems to irk her so much. But I started differently, I told her how lonely I am and how difficult my life can sometimes be. She heard me and listened to me. I don’t comlain to the girls about how hard life can be sometimes when you work so much have so little time for fun and freinds and living. I sometimes feel trapped in a tunnel with no pinpoint of light anywhere. And I cried. I cried and cried like I haven’t in a long time. I felt like I was grieving so many things that have been left in the past without a tear ever shed. Amber was wonderful and just listened. SHe shared some advice from a professor at school, she is taking a class on aging and was able to relate some of my fears with the natural progression of my life and this slowly emptying nest. I felt better after crying. Today she was sitting there reading a book for this class, Tuesdays with Morrie. A great book that she said would help me with all that I am going through. I read the book in about three hours. It was a great book that made me cry again but also offered a lot of insight. A great ending to a weekend. She is a smart kid my Amber.

The third book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I loved the book. I finished it on Feb 28! I have started my new book, Wizard and Glass, the fourth in the series. It will be the last book of the series that I had already read before (but had forgotten.) The final three books, which I bought brand new are sitting there on my shelf, looking like a scrumptious piece of chocolate cake. I can’t wait to bite into them! Onward!

the second book of The Dark Tower series on Jan 30th. Started the third book, The Wastelands.