Wow I'm really not sure about this......

So I started Loving Frank by Nancy Horan yesterday and wow! I am having a really tough time with it.  It feels very choppy to me - the chapters are only a few pages each and so far there is nothing that's captivated me.  I'll keep going since its the Book Club book this time around but so far this is not one I would recommend unless you have a love affair (yes pun intended) with Frank Lloyd Wright.

I am sure that this factors into my not getting into the book since I've had little sleep - allergy season has finally settled into my house and I feel like the tap has been opened inside my nose!  Hope it clears quickly since its the holiday weekend AND I have people coming to visit next week.  The girls (my daughters) and my hubby have so far stayed healthy and don't seem to be affected by the same thing that's bogging me down.

  

I am spending the afternoon catching on up on emails and Twitter stuff and getting the girls out to play after nap.  I wish everyone a happy and safe Memorial Day.  Be sure to remember those who have fought (like my grandfather Joe and my uncle Milford - though neither died in battle) to give us the freedoms that we take for granted (or not) every day!  Thanks to all of the veterans and as well  to the families of the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe and our freedom secured.

Hello.....

Hello all.  I am new to blogging but I think that I might like or (gasp!) even be good at it.  Time will tell I guess.  I don't think that I want to categorize my blog as I think that I will jump topics too much for the category to be relevant.

So what to start with?  Well I guess it would have to be with the fact that the last six weeks have welcomed back a ritual that I have missed -reading!  I am a book-aholic and devour books as I get them.  My husband asks me I don't slow down as I read and enjoy it?  I'm just the opposite - I enjoy it so much that I have to finish and have more!  I have always been that way.  And God help the author who writes a book that really strikes my fancy and doesn't have a sequel or other titles for me to equally fall in love with.

My daughters are two and four and I also run two businesses from home.  Needless to say, reading has fallen to the wayside for awhile.  Six weeks ago though, my next door neighbor very generously invited me to join a book club.  The first selection was Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah.  I procrastinated and ended up not even getting the book until a week before the book club was to meet.  My neighbor as well as another member had told me that they weren't that thrilled so I had very limited hopes.

However, on page 29 I looked at my husband and told him that I as hooked.  A day and a half and a box of Kleenex later, I was finished and drooling/sobbing for more.  Not just more from these characters (whom I loved) and  more from the author but really I just wanted more words.  I would highly recommend this book to anyone but be forewarned everyone I know that has read it (with the exception of two of the 25+) needed quite a bit of Kleenex to get through the ending.

Within the following month, I finished the following:  Wicked and Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (both fabulous), Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (enjoyable and easy read) and Summer Island by Kristin Hannah (not quite as good as Firefly Lane but I liked it).  (I did mention that I devour books right?)

So now I'm back with an original love and I couldn't be happier.  I went on a book buying spree (I had a ton of gift certificates) and am now ready to go with the following:   Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (the next selection of the book club), the rest of the Twilight Series (New Moon,Eclipse and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer), Tall Dark & Dead and Dead Sexy by Tate Hallaway, Friday Night Knitting Club and Knit Two by Kate Jacobs and (the one I am most looking forward to) The Literary and Potato Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.

Should keep me busy for a month or so............

P.S.  If you have kids (probably ages 9-12), I also highly recommend the recent release George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt by Lucy & Stephen Hawking.  It's the sequel to George's Secret Key to the Universe which my daughter loved when we read it together.