books

i had seriously forgotten how awesome it was to get caught up in a good book. and i don't think i've ever read thru 2 thick books in less than a week. but such is the case with my current choice of entertainment.

i finally gave in and watched the movie Twilight. Debbie warned me just to read the books, but i didn't listen, and tried the movie first. that was mistake number one. but i'm actually glad that i watched the movie before reading the first book. when i went back and watched it again after finishing book 1 i didn't think as much of the movie. it left out way too much of the good stuff and changed things around in ways that i didn't like, but understood.

it must be a hard task at times to adapt a book to a movie. i am more hopeful for New Moon. i just finished that book yesterday. at first i was very mad that edward left and broke bella's heart the way he did... but then i started to like the new friendship bella was creating with jacob, so much so that wanting to know how things turn out for them is more important to me than her and edward. i can guess that ending, its jacob i'm concerned about. haha. and i always thought i would be cheering for the vampire. i guess sometimes i surprise myself!

reading has let me enjoy a few more simple things in life and has taken my mind off of others. the other day i layed out in my front yard on a blanket and read a book all afternoon. it made me feel like a kid again. i suppose i can still pass for one by looks, but this took me back to a time when i didn't have to think about the world around me... i could enjoy the heat of the sun and the cool of the breeze and escape into a dream world. only this time it wasn't my own dream world. so often i like sleeping because of my dreams, but books give you that same thrill without having to be a sleep. i had forgotten that. i guess maybe because the books are read aren't usually for fun. they are more for learning. i am going to read more fiction!

as summer approaches, i really hope that i have more time to enjoy simple things like that. i am a nature kind of girl. i love being outside, but too often i let the indoors distract me. im going to try and not let that stop me this summer! :)

i'm itching to travel again. but i think really all i need is to take a trip to one of the great lakes and spend sometime on a "beach" i use the term lightly because our beaches in michigan are nothing like being on a real beach at the ocean. i miss that. i'm feeling reflective again. like i just need a weekend alone with me and my thoughts and of course whatever book i happen to be reading. i'm already a few chapters into Eclipse, work is making it a bit harder to read thru that one as fast. haha. but then there is only one left. i bet once i get all the way thru i will read them again.

and i'm thinking that i need to listen to debbie's advice more often when it comes to reading books! i suppose harry potter will be next. i love the movies and i suppose that once i give the books a read i will appreciate them more.

i suppose i've been keeping to myself lately. my aunt died last friday and her funeral was yesterday. this is the first of my dad's sisters/brothers to die. its hard when they start hitting so close to home. sometimes i wish the distance wasn't so great between me and that side of the family.

oh and just let me say that s. darko, the sequel to donnie darko, made me mad. i liked what they were trying to do with the visuals, but.... the story to me just seemed like whoever was writing it didn't understand the original movie or what "frank" truly represented. it was definitely lacking. and i suppose i knew that i would be disappointed with it, nothing can compare to donnie darko in my mind. it is one of my favorite movies of all time... but i do own the follow up to it now. i may never watch it again, but it will always be in my collection, just because.

its funny because my mind feels like its heading toward the fall, not spring... maybe its because i'm reading books about vampires and werewolfs! haha.

maybe im just missing my friends who are long distances from me... and maybe i'm just needing a new adventure, whatever that may be!

hmmm... i guess thats where i will end my thoughts for now. i have work to finish so i can get home, eat dinner and return to my book. :)