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Thursday, January 29, 2004

book insanity

You know that Hayley Mills movie, "Summer Magic"? Well, maybe you don't, but anyway, we like Hayley Mills and we like this movie and T had the opportunity to get a free copy from someone whose kids all moved out of the house so she was giving away their movies, so he took it, and MY kids just watched it and oh my goodness I'm so glad it's over because the sound on it was all skewed as if our VCR had had a few drinks too many. It almost made me seasick to listen to it.

I am on a book-waiting-list purge. Ever find yourself with a bookmark in like six or eight books, unable to finish any of them? I finally sat down and made a list of all the books I had bookmarks in, the day before yesterday:

and I don't think that's all; I think I have one or two more lurking around here somewhere. AND I am in one of those moods where so many books sound appealing -- I think about, say, Emily of New Moon, or Watership Down and I want to pick it up off the shelf and start reading it. It feels so disorganized, though, to have so many books going at one time, so I resolved (as I have had to do with craft projects as well) that I would not open another book until I had finished ALL of the books I was currently working on.

This resolution lasted about thirty hours.

I started out well -- I finished Fifteen really quickly (I love, love, LOVE this book; I had the biggest crush on Stan Crandall when I was an early teenager), then had the delicious experience of finishing Jane Eyre (although every time I read that I feel a stronger inclination to shove St. John Rivers over a cliff -- he is the type of Christian who helps to make some non-Christians despise Christians) at 1:00 in the morning after that sigh-worthy reunion with Mr. Rochester; I read the last five or six chapters of Dawn on a Distant Shore this morning and got well into Mexifornia. Then the library called. My hold was there. It's a Marian Keyes book. Marian Keyes!! Am I expected to plow through nonfiction -- not to mention reading a 1200-page epic translated from the French -- before cracking that 350-page all-nighter-of-delight? I've had it "on hold" since March, and finally it is in my possession and I'm supposed to wait because of a rule I made myself? I'm only human, after all, and I don't know if I can stand it.

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Posted by Rachel on January 29, 2004 10:37 PM in nose in a book