A Good Reading Day

It has already rained here in central Florida and it was before noon! At least we've cooled off to the upper 70's for now. Looks like we'll have a cloudy day so I will consider this a perfect reading day. Laundry is finished, dinner is planned and yard work is as finished as it will get!

Right now I am reading The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud which is the second book in the Bartimaeus trilogy. I really enjoyed the first book, The Amulet of Samarkand, but am having trouble getting into this one. In over 200 pages, I am still feeling a little like the book is disjointed. I still think the story is good and I love how the author puts footnotes to the thoughts of Bartimaeus (hysterical!) but it just isn't catching my attention as well as the first book. Of course it could be me and it could be that I have the next Sookie Sackhouse book sitting on the counter waiting for me.

After this book it is back to Sookie for a while. Sometimes I just need to have a little book candy to read. The books are short, they are entertaining and quite adult!

Rainy Days

Rainy days. Well here in Florida we have rain, on many days, but not usually rainy days. I enjoy my sunshine and feel blah when it's cloudy all day. This is the reason I live here! Today started out cloudy and then a little sunny but now rainy. Blech.

I've been reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris which are currently being made into the True Blood series on HBO. Now we don't get HBO, since I am cheap, but my daughter does. They are recording them for us on their DVR but the problem is, we need to watch them at their house. If you have never seen True Blood then you would think, "no problem." uh huh, yeah. This is HBO and, well, one of the characters almost never has clothes on. There's tons of fairly graphic sex (say it isn't so. Rogue from the X-Men doing the dirty!) Now hubby and I are left with handing the "kids" (who are married adults) $40 and telling them to get lost while we watch the episodes they recorded! We are NOT watching them WITH them. Yuck. Just knowing THEY saw what WE saw on that show is creepy! But, it is a really good show. The books are great and the TV show is good as well. The show loses some of the humor of the books but, oh well. Nothing like a proper Southern girl falling in love with a Civil War era vampire and all the rollicking fun that goes along with.

This doesn't have much to do with homeschooling but, if your young teen wants to watch True Blood after reading one of the books, well, you'd better watch it first!