When I try to tell you
My insides crumple
Like a piece of paper I don’t want you to read
If you see it, read the words lining up
All the ways I love you, checked off by number and name
What will you hug to your heart and call your own.

I want to thank you a million times over for every word that floats
across your lips
jumping through the air
pressing into my soft places
brushing my lips, dropping into my heart, coating it
tickling just behind my left ear.
Yet, I do not feel swept away.
I watch as it swells up and surrounds me.
And simply enjoy it.

Have I knocked on a thousand doors
Just to have you answer like you already knew me?
Simply snatch me up by the shoulders and claim me.

♥♥♥

So this is supposed to be a daily reading log but it seems I am only updating it on the weekends.
I finished the audio of The Gravity Keeper and I finished Unwind.

Jenna Fox p. 9
The Elite p.80
The Wind in the Willows p. 64
The Iron Heel 121 pages in, 99 pages left
To Kill a Mockingbird p. 155/281
Invisible Touch p. 189
Tithe p. 19
Dune p. 24

Out from the library:
Patron Said of Butterflies
The Summer of Secret Assignments

Need to take out of the library:
Master and Margarita
Catcher in the Rye
Tale of Despereaux

I will start the audio for 13 Reasons Why today.

I have done a lot of reading this weekend. Just haven't finished many books.

I finished Perfect on Paper.
I am on page 140 of Unwind.
Invisible Touch p. 106.
The Elite p. 80.
Dune p. 20.
Tithe p. 6.
2/3rds of the way through the audio of The Gravity Keeper.

Still to read this month:
Jenna Fox
Master and Margarita
Catcher in the Rye
The Wind in the Willows
Edward Tulane
Monster
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Iron Heel
Audio of Thirteen Reasons Why

Also out from the library:
Patron Saint of Butterflies
Summer of Secret Assignments

Want to take out from the library:
The Nature of Jade
Peeps

FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finished:
Stranger in a Strange Land
Katie and Kimble
The Forgotten Door

Actively Reading:
The Hunger Games p. 85
Dune p. 6

Passively Reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Wind in the Willows
The Elite
Perfect on Paper
The Iron Heel

I finished Because Of Winn-Dixie.
I started A Long Way from Chicago but I don't know if it is what I want to be reading RIGHT now.
p. 57 The Wind in the Willows.
About halfway through To Kill a Mockingbird and The Iron Heel still.

Other January reads:
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
The Hunger Games
Dune
The Forgotten Door
The Dante Club
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The Elite
Monster

I see some books that I didn't tell you I completed. Some may be repeats:

The Time Machine
The Cure
Larklight
The White Mountains

Up to about 130 in The Iron Heel.
I thought I was 8 pages from the end of Stranger in a Strange Land but again my math skills fail me and I am 18 pages from the end.
On page 60 something in Cat's Eye.

There is a strange accomplishment in reading The Iron Heel even though I am only, at best, skimming it.

Chelsea sent me:
Octavian Nothing
Monster
The Center of the Universe
Sixtyfive Roses
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The Big Empty

New from the library:
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
The Hunger Games

Audio from library:
The Gravity Keeper
Thirteen Reasons Why

Reading is going slow but well:
Stranger in a Strange Land p.287/414
Cat's Eye p. 65/445
Iron Heel holding steady at 53 pages in.

Stranger in a Strange Land p. 97
About 50 pages into The Iron Heel.
A few pages into Hitler's Canary

Franny and Zooey DONE
Coraline DONE
Larklight p. 346/400
How did I manage to lose Stranger in a Strange Land already?
Around the World in Eighty Days p. 9/208
The Time Machine p. 13/120

I wanted to finish 3 books by sunrise and I only finished one. I am trying to finish 6 books by the end of the weekend.

The Cure DONE
Franny and Zooey p. 176/202
Larklight p. 214/400
Stranger in a Strange Land p. 14/414

I hope to finish Franny and Zooey this evening.
I have committed myself to read 13 books before the end of the year. Now down to 12.save

Larklight p. 180/400
The Cure p. 180/260
The Iron Heel 15 pages in. <3
Franny and Zooey p. 170/202

I forgot to say that I finished Space Race in part because I hated it so much.

I have finished The Quantum Prophecy and I really liked it in the end. I will likely read more in the series.

The Stepford Wives was great.

Still working on Coraline with audio. I am somewhere around page 89 in the paper book.

I am not sure where I am in Perfect On Paper but I am still working on it and enjoying it.

The Cure p. 108/258
Larklight p. 57/400

Want to read soon:
The White Mountains
Cat's Eye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Franny and Zooey
The Time Machine

Taking The Boy Book back without reading it. Maybe another time.

I finished The Little Prince which will go towards my !% Well Read Challenge.

I finished the audio of Beautiful Red. I really really enjoyed it and am considering listening to it again.

I started the audio of Coraline. I am very mixed about it.

The Quantum Prophecy is progressing nicely. It is really interesting but has a lot of character and point of view shifts. I am waiting to get a little more into it before passing judgement.

I started reading a book from the library called Tria and the Great Star Rescue. I finished it last night and I really liked it. For the age level that is was (9-12) I like the level of complexity for the science fiction elements, though the story was stupid at times.

I have read about 10 pages into The Stepford Wives. There are a lot of things I like about the author's writing style.

I said I was reading 2 graphic novels and one of them was really a graphic memoir. It was called To Dance and it is back at the library now. It was pretty good, but not amazing.

Oh and I also got a whole bunch more books out of the library. They are mostly for younger readers.

I finished the audios of Uglies and Frankenstein.
I am reading and really enjoying Perfect on Paper. 198/315
Quantum Prophecy: The Awakening p. 23.
Also out of the library: The Stepford Wives, The Cure and two graphic novels. Oh and The Boy Book. Better start that.

To read soon (maybe):
The Time Machine
Coraline
The Invisible Man

Two books I am struggling with:
The Memory of Running
Prayer for Owen Meany

Beautiful Red audio from podio. Soooooooooooo good.

I finished Paper Towns and I expected it to be a quick read for me and it just wasn't.

So this is what I have read:

Rash
Fooling With Words
Smiles to Go
The Van Gogh Cafe
Parnassus on Wheels
Suite Scarlet
Ender's Game (audio)
The Boyfriend List (audio)

This is what I am in the middle of:

Frankenstein (with audio)
Leaves of Grass (with audio)
Paper Towns
Perfect on Paper
Space Race

Hope I didn't miss anything.

I am on about page 130ish is Tom Gordon.
I read about 50 pages last night in Owen Meany and am on page 150ish.
I have barely been reading anything else except for a few picture books.

So, in theory, I was supposed to finish The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon today. And here it is not far off from 1am AAAAAAND.....I read about 10 pages TOTAL today. So much for that plan. Something was weird and blah about my day. But now it is over.

Wait, wait, wait. I did read a picture book, one of the most boring picture books I have ever ever read in my whole entire life. It was called Bug Safari and if your child brings it home from school, HIDE!

I went through all my library books to see where I was in each of them. Several of the books are due on Friday and I decided I would try and get some of them done.

Watership Down p. 20, not really getting into this though I have been waiting a long time to read it. Giving it a little more time. Now may just not be the right time to read it.

Master and Margarita p. 52, I really have enjoyed the book but have not read it recently. Getting easily distracted with other books. I want to put more effort into this one.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon p. 82, I decided I am going to try and finish this today. It is only 219 pages and it is a fairly fast read.

Pay It Forward p. 22 will likely be returned without being read. It isn't that I dislike it exactly. But I don't particularly like it either. I am going to try and read it all in one go when I finish Tome Gordon

Made a little progress in The Stand. P. 60.

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