i'm still alive

i got a call from my sister today wondering if i was still alive, since i hadn't posted in a while. i was doing pretty good posting regularly. but stephanie meyer's book "breaking dawn" was released on august 2nd.

i had pre-ordered it on amazon.com ... and it didn't arrive until the 5th. so for the past three days i've been absorbed into the twilight world. i read half of it on the 6th, and then a quarter on the 7th and aidan took a 3 hour nap today, so i finished the last quarter today.

so ... sorry, i am still alive. i've just been hiding from blogs (since everyone else has already read it) and then too busy to post as i was spending all my spare time reading.

i'm done reading ... so my life can return to normal.

i must add that i liked this book the best of all the twilight books ... the things that bothered me in the other books were not present in this book ... and it was interesting to read it at the point of my life i'm in right now. her writing style still BUGS me (c'mon steph ... edit more please!! EDITED: not necessarily typos or grammatical errors -- although there were some -- but she just uses too many dang words and over describes things. the book did NOT need to be 754 pages!!!) but over all i was pleased.

i now return you to my regular scheduled blogging!!

my sister's keeper, by jodi picoult

i just finished reading "my sister's keeper" by jodi picoult. it was the book chosen for our book club last month (yes, i realize i'm a slacker and i should have finished it a month ago!!). i really liked it actually and would recommend it to anyone interested in reading.

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here is the synopsis from the back of the book: "anna is not sick, but she might as well be. by age thriteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. the product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for kate - a life and a rold that she has never challenged ... until now. like most teenagers, anna is beginning to question who she truly is. but unlike more teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. a provocative novel that raises some important ethical issues, "my sister's keeper" is the story of one family's struggle for survival at all human costs and a stunning moral parable for all time"

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it does say the f-word more times that i would have wished, and there is a lesbian character, and i HATED how the book ended (although, now that i think about it, i cannot think any other ending would have been better). having said all that, i would read it again, and i thoroughly enjoyed it (c'mon i read it all in 2 days!!)

tagged -- my newest obsession!!!

my friend Kerstin tagged me with a book tag. (ok, not really but i'm doing it anyways!)
To complete this tag you must:
1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages)
2. Turn to page 123
3.Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog
5.Tag 5 people

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"He seemed a little old to be hanging out with us."

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boring sentance when taken out of context, but this is actually an amzing part of the story!!! i was hoping it would be a good juicy one, but no. this is my newest obsession. I just finished it on sunday, and hopefully book 2 and 3 will arrive as promised in the mail tomorrow (i'm waiting on the edge of my seat!!) and i already pre-ordered book 4! sheesh. so far i'm totally loving this series. if any of you wanna borrow it, let me know (although nicole has dibbs ... she gets it saturday when i see her next). or go buy a copy yourself, it's excellent and you wont regret it! want to learn more about this book, check it out!!

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now I tag: nicole, becca, jen, tricia and rachel -- and anyone else who wants to play!! huzzah!

quote-ables

"if i had any part of you in me ... i would not have needed to marry you to become a complete person. ... that is the desire of the soul. because the soul is made of light and dwells in air, it is that part which conceives and keeps ideas, especially the idea of the self. the husband longs for his whole self, which was made of the husband and the wife together. thus he never believes any of his own thoughts, because there is always a question in his mind to which his wife's thoughts were the only possible answer. thus the whole world seems dead to him because he cannot trust anything to keep its meaning before the onslaught of this unanswerable question."

-Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card page 4

if you've never read anything by orson scott card, stop reading this post now and go to half.com and order "ender's game" right now. i'll wait. you can get it for $0.75 +s&h. and it's soooooo worth it. "xenocide" is the third book in the series, it comes after "speaker for the dead" and before "children of the mind". although i recommend reading "ender's shadow" and then all the shadow books before continuing on to read the books directly after "ender's game". seriously, the best books EVER. ok, sorry i'm going back to my reading now.

and i just found out, orson scott card is in the works of a comic book about ender as well