Lol, Ben!~

I read anywhere and everywhere, except at the table cause I wanna talk with me family. I’ve been known to have read hours out in the hot sunshine (I love hot, clear, unhumid weather and everybody thinks I’m nuts )and get very sunburned (today I look like a native of “Darkest Peru”) and I’ve also been known to read books while sitting in a tree! I can’t read too much in the car because *bemoans the unchangeable fact* I get carsick! I do lotsa reading on our front porch step and on my bed, a bit in the basement, and most of it in my room (after boosting the sibs away from the TV or electric piano!). I’ve been able to read upside down, sideways, and the boring rightside up. I can read really well with music, but not with dramatizations or talkies or movies playing. I once crocheted a whole 8ft. blanket, and much of the endless rows were made while happily reading a book and listening to CDs, all at the same time. I can brag about that ‘un! A book in hand, a pen tucked into my wild curly hair and ink splotches on my hand are perfectly natural for Pip.

I’ve just finished reading a book by Andrew Clements; I love his writing, they’re fresh, funny, and the kids don’t maliciously work against their parents like so many modern kids in books (can you tell I’m not enthusiastic about most moderness?), or at least they don’t unless they have darn good reason to. And they’re not disrespectful about that, but rather try to include them and make them understand. Loverly books! The best sofar is A Week in the Woods

I’m so fed up with end times movies! A year or two ago, I’d heard tell of some aethiest who’d watched an end times movie and the special effects and the acting were so poor, they just strengthened his indignation against us.

Because of Winn~Dixie is a very good adaption; I’m watching two adaptions tonight: Love Comes Softly and George and the Dragon. Here’s hopin’…

I read a book a long time ago in a series about a girl named Mandie; somebody’s making a movie about that. It might be OK, I didn’t like the book.

Ooh, I am SO gonna see Redwall and The Hobbit, if I haveta drive there meself (squealing of car tires and a few crashes)! Not seeing Capsian was bad enough!

I had to wait a long time in between books, to get them for Christmas and B-days. The Black Cauldron is my least favorite, I think. And the green-eyed, gray-haired dude, whose name escapes me but I know it starts with a G, is SO pessimistic in the last book! I wanted ta sock him in the mouth!

I finished Half-Magic by Edward Eager today, I love the way he writes! Verra pleasant.

Muahahahaha, jordan! My library had them before I’d even heard about them! Actually, I thought they were witchy-poo at first, because the cover of the Wyrm Lord looked creepy.

Off-Topic: Thankfully, our library lets us keep the books for a month, and the movies for a meager week. One library we had in another state only let us check out 25 books or something, and back then we had my older sis, also an avid reader. AND Mom hadta get school books! AAAHHHHH!

REALLY Off-Topic: Copying DVDs for personal, no-charging-to-see-it-for-other-folks usage isn’t illegal. We do it all the time. (Now where did that come from?)