Books On My Bed

Being the bookworm that I am, I read a lot of books.

Start a lot of books...

Never finish a lot of books...

Generally I have at least half a dozen I'm reading at a time. New stuff, old stuff, stuff somebody gave me, stuff I found at random. Yeah.

Today I noticed that I have an absurd amount of books on my bed. Not counting school books, notebooks, planners, and my Bible, I found seven novels making themselves at home between my sheets. And what were these discoveries? Well, I suppose I'll tell you.

Book numero uno

"Black" - Ted Dekker

For those of you who don't know me, I am quite admittedly a Dekkie. I own almost all of his books. I'm constantly going through shelves at Ollie's to find a Dekker book I don't already own, or a hardcover copy of one I do.

Black I am re-reading. This may possibly be the third time I'm going through it. I'm not quite sure. It's a beautifully written fantasy/adventure/thriller that makes you wonder if this world is real. Elements of Biblical stories are blended into Dekker's original ideas to create a new world of ostensible ( heh, vocab word :) good and evil. But it's like Lay's - you can't read just one.

Libro dos

"Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-It-Yourself Mysteries"

Yeah, so, um, small admission here...

I haven't actually read it.

Any of it.

A trip to the library that displayed a very unorganized young adult's section and a very interesting children's corner resulted in me checking out this book. It looks delicious, but I've yet to take a bite.

Three (Spanish is overrated)

"Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll

Well, of course I would sleep next to my favorite book! I can't tell you how many times I've read it. Possibly thirty. Maybe more. It has everything - old book feel and smell, perfectly antediluvian illustrations, written for a child... I love it :)

Cuatro (Just kidding)

"Saxe's Complete Poems"

When I was little, my dad would have me read a poem from this book every night. Can't say I totally loved it then, but it's grown on me. Some works are so full of eloquent truth, you can't resist it. Maybe next time, I'll tell you some of my favorite poems and stories from John Saxe.

On a side note, there's a message written on the first page to whoever this book was gifted to. It's dated 1927.

5 (SO much easier)

"Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe"

I love Poe, and, once again, I've yet to read even the first page. I plan on it tonight though. It looks eerie. O.O

6

"Come Away My Beloved" - Frances J. Roberts

Oh, if I only I could describe the wonderful truths in this little book, but I can't even begin to! I HIGHLY recommend it! If anyone could ever come close to capturing God's voice in such a beautiful way, Frances Roberts has done it.

Last one

"99 Questions Jesus Asked" - Jason Ostrander

I heard Jason speak at Creation Fest this past summer (he was also the MC for the Main Stage), and it was an expatiation of three or four of the questions in this books. I haven't finished it, and I kind of wish he would go into more detail in some, but if you want something short to ignite a study of your own - or with friends - I'd recommend this. It's geared towards teens, so... yeah.

And that's all! I hope I may have directed you towards some amazing books. I know they're amazing. Hopefully you will think the same :)

Long Wednesday

*That awkward moment when you can't remember how to spell "Wednesday"*

Seeing an article on Yahoo entitled, "Why Simon fired Paula". Umm... wasn't it because she was usually... a bit tipsy during like... every show? I thought this was common knowledge? And I don't even watch the dang show!

Discover the truth about Petite Lap Giraffes. And I was so hoping for one when I am 21,973 years old!

Getting ready to write a post on Snow Camp! I would've done it tonight but... eh.

"Flying" with your neighbor's dog.

I'm now obsessed with One Tree Hill. Completely and definitely. And I'm in love with Jake. He's amazing.

My mom is super awesome - she paid for the overnight shipping for my new memory card so I had it in time for Snow Camp! She's cool... usually ;)

My brother yelling at my sister -- they're playing some Wii Nerf game.

Still totally obsessed with The Civil Wars. And I may now be much of a Taylor Swift fan but... "Safe and Sound"? Most definitely a new favorite.

Did I tell you I finally finished "Jane Eyre"? Well I did -- and it was fantastic. I sighed a big happy sigh at the end. And smiled. And said "That was the gosh darned best book I ever read!" And that is true -- at least in the classic literature department.

Are you totally curious about how many books I've started and not finished, and what those books are? I am. Let's make a list, shall we?

1. "Immanuel's Veins" - Ted Dekker
2. "Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25" - Richard Paul Evans
3. "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" - Joshua Harris
4. "Wuthering Heights" - Emily Brontë (I actually just started this one yesterday, but what the hay, I'll count it)
5. "Girl Perfect" - Jennifer Strickland (I only have like 10 pages left, but those pages have been left for two years...)

So that's five - that I can think of. I know there are many more.

I've noticed now that I've somewhat stopped biting my fingernails and they're at a decent length, my hands don't look like they belong to a five year old.

Well, actually they look smaller than they before. Did I ever mention I have tiny little hands? Well, I do.

This part of the post is being written on Thursday. I know you're really confused, wondering why this post has "Wednesday" in the title. Well, it's because this was supposed to be a Wednesday post. But now it's a Thursday post. Because I'm lazy.

Speaking of lazy, I totally accomplished more than I usually do on a given day... but then I was too lazy to go clean at my grandma's... or so laundry... or make no bake cookies... actually I think those no bake cookies still have a good chance of being brought in this world. I'll need a snack for

the premiere of "Awake"!

I felt totally awesome today practicing my piece for Carnegie. That doesn't happen often... but it happened today. And made me happy :)

I'd like to note here that Mozart is awesome -- but Chopin is better.

Are you totally lost yet? This post was very eclectic and haphazard and made no sense -- or did it?

New-found love:

And if you totally love it, you can get it at jennyandtyler.com -- you're welcome.

Oh yea, and

Cheers♥

Squeaky Clean

Reading: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Listening to: Maroon 5 (I feel totally weird saying that... don't judge me. I got moves like Jagger ;)

Mmhmm

   The other day I had this weird impulse to read some literature (I think it had to do with the smell of old books surrounding me. Sometimes I wonder if people ever spike books...). To the bookshelf I went and after browsing for a while I discovered Of Mice and Men. I've always wanted to read it, just to know what it's about, so I said what the hay and read it in two hours (which is a bit embarrassing since it's only 100 pages long.).

    So it's a depressing book. But not totally as depressing as what I thought. It's depressing for the obvious reason, of course, there's something much deeper there that made me think. I almost felt like it was a story that could've happened any day, every day. There didn't seem to be any huge moral point or really any point at all. It was just a story about two guys trying to make their way during the Depression. They could have been any men you saw walking down the street. All they wanted was a better life - and they almost got it.

    Anyway, I discovered while reading the little prelude on John Steinbeck that he also wrote East of Eden. I've seen the movie (James Dean. I HAD to, obviously.) and thought it was pretty good (mostly because of James Dean), so I ran to the library to borrow it.

    I was unaware that East of Eden by John Steinbeck was 601 pages long. And not small juvenile fiction pages. So I've been attempting to read 50 pages a day. It's not actually been that difficult because the story's very interesting - but it's not what I expected.

    The book is divided into several parts and the movie apparently omitted at the least the first part so this has been like reading a totally different book - which is awesome.

    It's a bit dark, in some aspects, but it totally reveals the author, and that's something I've never so explicitly observed in a book.

    So I'll let y'all know how it is when I finish :)

   I've found something. A TV show. A slightly old TV show. A TV show that really shouldn't be old, but is, which makes me feel old. 

   One Tree Hill.

   OK, so it's still airing. But I'm talking old school, 2003 One Tree Hill. Yea. I never watched these shows because I was... 8 when the show started. But I think just growing up in that era, you find yourself loving the shows of that time (i.e., the early 2000's). So I randomly started watching is on Netflix, fell in love with Chad Michael Murray, and... I'm addicted. Just like that. My parents should be happy I don't dabble in anything worse than TV shows with my addictive personality... then again, maybe TV shows are worse...

   Naahhh!!!

   I also had the wonderful experience of gluing styrofoam peanuts to my eyebrows*, being on TV, and embarrassing my sister's best by dancing to "Forever" in the middle of the street - and singing along.

Cheers♥

*These are to be known as "Santa-brows". Copyright Emily Fedora.

Hehe, yeaa.... :)