I LOVE Wishbone. I used to watch it with my grandpa when I stayed with him and my grandma every summer. They only had basic cable so I watched a lot of reruns of I Love Lucy and PBS. I wish they would release the series on DVD so I wouldn't have to save all the episodes on my TiVo.

Also, Happy Halloween!!!

New Challenge?

I'm thinking of joining this challenge. I currently am challenging myself to read the books I own but haven't read. I'm going to wait until closer to the end of the year to sign up (if I do decide to sign up). That way I can see how many books I read this year and gauge my level according to that.

In other news my body has been rebelling these last few days. I don't know what's up. Probably an allergic reaction to something. It's not fun though. Luckily it hasn't happened while at work (knock on wood).

And I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I'm only 13 pages in. This is one of my first crime fictions. I hope I like it because I already bought the other two.

“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
–Ernest Hemingway.

An open question from The View from Saturday: 

"If you could live one day of your life all over again, what day would it be? And why?"

I don't know what day I would live over again. I think I focus on bad things much more than good things, so most of the days that really stand out in my mind don't seem that great. I might relive a day from when I was living in the UK, or a day in Hawaii.

Also, my choice depends whether that day would be exactly the same (in which case I would choose a good day) or if I could change anything (in which case I would pick the worst day of my life).

However, I think if it were a good day, I would be alone (make of that what you will) and if it was the worst day of my life, I would try to correct my one regret.

And what I'm reading now: I started rereading A Horse and His Boy (my least favorite of the Chronicles of Narnia) but I might give up and reread Lamb by Christopher Moore or The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold instead. Or perhaps something else will become my next read by tomorrow. We'll see.

I've been writing lame reviews of books as I finish them here, but I think I'm going to stop that. I already write lame reviews on my goodreads account. If you're interested, there's a link in this post and on my page. If I ever get better/have the sudden desire to post the same thing in two places on the internet (it's been known to happen occasionally here and on my tumblr), I might start up again.

However, I do want to put the books I am reading up here still. It gives my "what I'm reading" tag a purpose. Also, I care more about what everyone else is reading than about what they think about it (I'm shallow like that).

Today I finished Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech and started The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg. I'm trying to decide what to read after I finish this. I had an epiphany this weekend but did not write it down so I of course promptly forgot it. Here's to hoping it returns soon (along with my ability to construct a readable sentence).

Meme Monday

36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
I hate the library at home. At school last year, anywhere between one and ten.

37. How often have you returned book to the library unread?
Sometimes. I tried to only check out books I knew I would read.

38. Favorite fictional character?

I don’t really have favorite characters in books. If I had to pick, I’d say Lyra Silvertongue from HDM or Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.

39. Favorite fictional villain?

See above.

40. Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation?
Whatever I'm reading at the time, YA novels, rereads.

41. The longest I’ve gone without reading.
I have no idea. I go through phases where I'll read like mad for a while then not read at all.

42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
The Lord of the Rings, but I'm going to finish The Return of the King one day, if only to say that I did it. 

43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?
Too much noise around me, especially conversations. I'll often find myself eavesdropping instead of concentrating on what I'm reading.

44. Favorite film adaptation of a novel?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (tentatively... I've only seen this one once).

45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
Almost every other film adaptation of a book I've read (there are lots of movies made from books I've never read and I don't really care about those). The Golden Compass and Disney's The Bridge to Terabithia are high on the list though. They looked so awful from the trailers that I didn't see either of them. 

I've been on a mini-vacation this weekend and am so happy to be back home sleeping in my own bed. It's been a lot of fun, but I can't wait for my schedule to go back to normal.

Image from Jacobsen Architecture

This photo combines my love of white bedrooms with my love of bookcases. Perfection.