I have been reading a lot lately and just finished my latest book. I haven't had time to get a new book, don't have homework (excellent), and am avoiding Pinterest, so I am left slightly bored at work. I've been browsing blogs but not many people have updated recently so I decided perhaps I'll update.
I just finished reading the third book of this series:
Uglies, the first book, was so good. Pretties was alright. Specials was just plain annoying. I'm not even going to bother reading Extras. I really like the plot of the books and think it has awesome potential, but I just feel like they're written similar to the Twilight series--something that could be said in one sentence instead takes a whole page. Halfway through Specials it was just
dragging. I think this series could have been satisfactorily told in two books rather than four.
I've made a goal to read more this year. Here's the list of books I'm hoping to check off (I'd better get a move on it!):
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Spindle's End
Pride and Prejudice
I've never read Jane Austen before.
Moby Dick
A classic that I don't really know much about
but it sounds really interesting to me.
Lola and the Boy Next Door
1984
Another classic that I have not read.
The Da Vinci Code
I know I'm like 6 years late on this one...
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Cinder
The Book Thief
Jane Eyre
We read this my junior year of high school, but as always,
I was a procrastinator and ended up reading a cliff-note version
of the book that had been passed down for years from
one class to another (which I dutifully passed on as well). I really
loved the summary but just have never gotten
around to reading the whole thing.
Atlas Shrugged
Something like 1,100 pages...wish me luck!
I'm also considering reading The Hunger Games series but I'm too lazy to get that picture since I just barely remembered it.
I also want to reread some books that I've already read and loved.
Speak
The Hiding Place
And of course have to have my annual fill of the
Harry Potter Series.
Feel free to recommend any others to me as well.
In other news, my taste buds have been turned to this loverly treat thanks to
Shley:
A treat I can count on Dan not stealing as he hates dark chocolate.
Mmm!!
I also made lasagna from scratch last night! Dan loved it. I'd only made lasagna from scratch one time before, but I used an incredibly simplified recipe (that had like 5 ingredients as opposed to the 20 the one I made last night called for [
recipe--and no I didn't actually use a dutch oven, just an electric skillet]) and used thinly sliced zucchini instead of lasagna noodles. Surprisingly you could barely taste the difference. But I used real noodles this time.
Anyways, I didn't get home from school til around 7:15 and started dinner (complete with garlic bread) until around 7:30. Yeah, we ate dinner at 10:30. At least Dan told me that it was the best lasagna he'd ever had (which is saying something as it's his favorite food!) and that it was worth the wait. :]
Hooray for boring blog posts. Maybe one day my life will be exciting enough to document.
P.S. I think every time I blog at work I'll post what it smells like because believe me, for whatever reason, Independent Study has some weird smells. Actually, the reason is because we share a building with BYU Food To Go.
Today it smells like aloe vera. Not like the lotion, like a fresh chop of the actual plant. The stinky smell.
(Although he does have rosy cheeks, he's not really this red! Weird camera-ness..)
