I miss reading. Really reading. The kind of reading where you lounge in your pajamas most of the day, totally engrossed in a book, forgetting to eat, letting the phone ring, with one goal in mind…finishing the book.
My reading lately has been snippets of stories I can catch online (we don’t watch tv), random flipping through Parents magazine while trying to make lunch, and children’s books read to the babes before naps (Papa does bedtime reading). I long to feed my brain with written word.
I have a running list in my head of books that I want to read. When I hear of new movies coming out that are based on a book, I instantly add that to my mental list if I haven’t read it before. A friend loaned me “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and I cried. I cried while reading it, I cried at the end. I am torn about seeing the movie. I highly recommend reading it. Although, there are a few parts in the book that will make a grown woman blush…don’t say I didn’t warn you.
One movie that I want to see is Coraline (I know, I am a little behind). But I wanted to read the book first. So, I did what I always do, I got on the library’s website and put a hold on the book. Library websites are a life-saver for Mamas. You can put holds on a gazillion books and then go down in a few days and pick them all up in one trip…no more chasing kids down while searching for books, getting distracted and leaving with far fewer than you had planned.
I put a hold on this book, not realizing that I wasn’t holding the “real” book. (Why yes, that is a vodka gimlet in that frosty glass, thanks for asking)

What a refreshing change! I came home and opened it up and saw the comic book format and laughed. Know what? I really dig it! I haven’t read a comic book in decades, people. Decades. I was long overdue.

Even if it was a crazy freaky comic book-book. I started reading it while making dinner and finished it in bed later that night. I think that it was about 3 hours of reading, all told.
Peace.