Summer's Almost Here, My Dear but You Are Reading Four Books, I Fear!

1,394 combined pages from the four books I am currently reading. I guess I like to read but not as much as some of my friends do. You know those people who are constantly glued to a book every second of every day? Well, I have friends like that. I also have friends who wont even pick up a book unless it's required reading for school. I'm somewhere in the middle but more towards the obsessive reader level. I really had no intention of reading four books at once and I certainly didn't plan on reading such long books so close to the beginning of summer but things don't always go as planned.

It started of with The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway- required reading for English class. Our teacher explained to us that Hemingway writes stories like icebergs where you can see the tip of it easily but you need to pay close attention to see the rest of it. I paid close attention to the iceberg at first. I looked for the deeper meaning of every little detail. Soon, that attention was diverted to something much more important. After all, summer is only a week away. The only ice I'm thinking about now are the ice cubes floating in my glass of lemonade. I'm sure Hemingway would understand.

The second book is A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. I've actually read it before- more than once even, but it's been so long that I barely remember it. One of my classmates loves this books and attempts to talk to me about it all the time but it winds up being me just smiling and nodding a lot. So I'm reading it again.

That should have been enough. Two books at a time is easy to handle.

Then came the day that my sister decided to go to Barnes and Noble. I shouldn't have wanted to go. My birthday is only a few weeks away and I have a long list of books that I've put on my wish list, but then my mind took over. The shelves of books neatly organized, the smell of the pages as people flip through the books quickly... I couldn't take it! I had to go! I picked up book after book making a mental list of books I needed to add to my wish list. After a while my sister and dad found me and were ready to leave. It was time to choose.

Finally I settled on My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult because the movie comes out the day after my birthday and I want to see it. Unable to leave with just one book I also picked Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame- Smith. Love and zombies- somehow they seem to go so perfectly together.

To make things even better for some reason I can't seem to stop writing things lately. I guess signing all those yearbooks just puts me in a creative mood. It takes insane amounts of creativity to sign a yearbook. Sure you could go with something sentimental like "You're a great friend. I love you. Keep in touch" blah blah blah, but that's just lame. We all should know that "H.A.G.S!" should be avoided at all costs. I mean have you seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Sure you could always just sign your name but how boring is that? No, it takes creativity. Anyways, I guess that's why I'm writing this blog. Otherwise my brain may explode with all the thoughts stuck in my head and that wouldn't be a pretty picture.

Coley