Book #6 +: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski finished on January 24, 2009

I think this books should be counted as two books.  It was 600 pages long!  Most of the books I read are around 300 pages or so.

This was one of the best books I've read in a very long time.  It held my attention through out the whole book.  I was only bored in a few places but I don't hold that against the author.  I truly wanted to know what happened next and what the reason was behind Edgar's life and the dogs' lives.  Now, after saying that, I will say I was very disappointed in the e

Book #5: Straight Talking by Jane Green finished on January 17, 2009

This was a quick, light read.  It's like most of Jane's other books and I enjoyed it.  Do you have to have passion to fall in love?  Good story.  Chick lit which I enjoy between other more serious books.  :)

Book #4: Atonement by Ian McEwan read on January 14, 2009:

This book started out really slow.  I felt that there was too much in the way of descriptions in it.  While it's nice to have the author describe the way a person is dressed and the way the scene looks, sometimes I think you can go overboard.  When you take pages to do that, it's too much, in my opinion.

I think Part II was probably the best part of the book.  To be truthful I didn't like the writing of this book.  I liked the story and thought it was a good idea but the way it was written was not my favorite.  It wa

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Book #3: Brida: A Novel by Paulo Coelho finished on January 8, 2008.

This was a quick ready and short book.  I enjoyed it though.  I believe he was trying to teach a lesson that all the answers aren't out there in your life and you should just live your life and try to be happy.  I would recommend the book.  It was about witches but it was not out there at all.  Kind of cool.

Okay, on to my next book, Atonemen

So, I've pretty much been writing this blog/note entry for the past 3 hours or so in my head.  That's what I do when I'm shopping and by myself.  :)  So, anyways, I figured since my resolution was to read so many books, that I should keep track of it on my blog.  Of course, I am keeping track of it other places, too -- Collectorz and FB, but I figured why not another place.

So, it's January 5 and I have read 2 books so far.  The first book I finished on January 1 and started before the new year but that one counts because I finished it in 2009.  I probably would have finished the second book

I decided last night my New Year's resolution is to read all of the books that I started but never finished.  :)  Here's the thing, I'm very bad about starting a book and not finishing it if it is REALLY boring.  I figured out while cataloging all my books that I have quite a few books that I never finished.  So, my goal for 2009 is to finish those books.  I figured this is a goal that I can do!

As part of that goal, I want to read some of the classics that for what ever reason I never did read.  I have Emma that I need to read.  Can you believe that I have never read 'To Kill a Mocking Bird'

Well, I'm glad it's finally 2009!  I've been looking back at what has happened in 2008 and let's just say I'm glad the year is over.  I wasn't looking forward to 2008 because I knew I had almost a whole year of Herceptin treatments in front of me and radiation.  While the Herceptin wasn't so bad, I glad everything is done and over with!  No more treatments!  No more radiation!  No more surgeries!

I'm starting to feel more like myself again!  I want to start walking again and to try to start eating healthy and try to lose this stupid weight that I gained this year from all of the stress of the

Today was my outpatient surgery to have my port taken out.  This means I don't need it anymore.  Yea!  I'm alittle sore but I've been taken my painkillers.  I can't really lift my right arm right now.  We got to the hospital around 6:45 this morning.  I was supposed to go to surgery around 8:30.  It wasn't too far off -- the nurse said I was wheeled in around 9am.  This was my 7th surgery in a little over 2 years.  Two surgeries on my ankle, two surgeries on my breast, two surgeries for the port and one surgery for my hysterectomy.  I will say that I still hate coming out of the 'sleep' mode f

So, I was catching up with my huge stack of magazines (yes, I'm in the process of canceling a lot of them) and I was looking at the Fall edition of the Harding Alumni Magazine.  So, I was looking at the picture on the cover and think, boy that looks familiar, where do I know those stairs from?  Well, they look familiar because I was just on them a few weeks ago -- they are the stairs from the Vatican museum.  Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the stairs.  By the time we got done in the museum and were walking down the stairs, I was so

This past Thursday, I had my last Herceptin injection!  Yea!!  That means I've had a year's worth of injections.  Wow!  Time really flies.  So, I have made an appointment with my surgeon to have my port removed.  I couldn't get an initial office visit until Oct.