I'd forgotten how it consumes my time and energy, and how much I love that!
Instead of practicing piano early this morning, I curled up on the couch and read the early pages of Dracula. I'm still shy of a hundred pages in, but I must say I'm completely enthralled.
Goal: finish by the time I see Tyler on Saturday. The last thing I want to do is be almost finished with a good book when I'm just arriving!
Books are an addiction. When school started up, I quit cold turkey. Now that I've returned, my attachment is fiercer than ever.
Last year during spring break when my dad and I went to NC, I read A Tale of Two Cities during our drive around the state. I was so close to the end (if you've read that book, you know how suspenseful and emotional the ending is!) when the car suddenly came to a stop. We'd made an extra stop at a battlefield. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy historical detours. But imagine my horror when watching a documentary film on the Civil War knowing the pages on the French Revolution were shut tightly and locked in the parking lot!
This is why I must finish my book before my trip "starts" (meaning I can read on the plane and in the airport).
Off to bake cookies! Then it's a hair taming at the salon. Tali stays over tonight, and I just have to fit in a few hours of piano practice.
Excuse me, friends and family, if I appear dazed and my conversation veers to vampires and moonlit nights.
Please tell me you relate, that I'm not entirely crazed?
I get really into certain books as well. It's so easy to curl up and lose all sense of time :) See you tomorrow! I am looking forward to it :)
ReplyDeleteHimself always knows when I'm in the middle of a great read . . . no dinner, and no laundry.
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I'm still weirded out that there was a recurring theme of Dracula in Paris When It Sizzles...
ReplyDeleteI love Dracula! It's like Pilgrim's Progress but better (yes, better).
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