To blog or not to blog...

Decisions, decisions....as hard as I try I can not do two things at once....so my blogging may have to suffer that is unless I can get ahead...yeah right...

I'm trying to re-write a story when I suddenly remember I need to post a quote, be grateful-which is actually very easy, and then come here and blog.

Of course what doesn't help are all the books; fiction and non fiction, that I am currently reading...I want to do so much and there are not enough hours in the day...

Stay tuned to see if I can pull this off...

Reading

I pledged to read 20 books this year on Goodreads at the beginning of the year, well, I've already read 7.

Yeah, I upped it to 30.

I am always reading, I listen to books on CD in my car, I have my kindle and the old stand by books from the library. I revisit favorite books, which I won't count. Old books are like old friends and I can't give them up!

I finished another book today, an old friend, "This Heart of Mine", I absolutely love this book and read it whenever I want to feel good. To be honest, I love all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips books. Her heroines give me hope and I like that.

4 more Fridays...

that is until NASCAR! Being at work most of the day I missed the breaking news story that Danica and Ricky are an item, well, duh, who did hear about this last season? I think it's great, both Rookie of the Year candidates are dating, each other! Will it last? Don't have a crystal ball, not a fortune teller and to be honest it's not my concern but I hope they have a chance, why not, should make the racing interesting!

The rest of my Friday evening consists of a nice dinner with the parental units, reading, pistachio ice cream and Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey!

Reading...

Believe it or not I am currently reading/listening to 5 books; 2 mysteries, 2 biographies and 1 sports book.

I love to read, it wasn't always that way I actually had to be forced to read when I was in the first grade. My teacher, Mrs Steinhouser suggested that I read everyday out loud to my mother, which I did and then she suggested when school let out for the summer that I join the summer reading program at the local library. That summer the theme was mysteries, I would find books to read then when I finished them I would have to tell the childrens librarian, Mrs Etta Banks, all about the books, she gave me a little folder and would write the titles of the books I'd read on little magnifying glasses made of paper and filled up my folder. After that there was no stopping me, Nancy Drew, biographies, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The House of 30 Cats, cook books, books about pets, poetry books.....

When I got into college I worked at the public library and found my way into paperback romances; Regency Romance and Barbara Cartland...happy endings of course...and there was my love of mysteries; The Cat Who Books, My favorite FBI Special Agent Pendergast, Grafton, Cornwall, Muller, Stabenow...

Technology has become my best friend when it comes to books, I can reserve books from the library without ever going there except to pick them up, I can download them onto my Kindle, I can listen to books on CD...and yes, the book is better than the movie 9 times out of 10!