Hallelujah, I Can READ!

(And you better believe I had to look up how to spell "hallelujah".) I had almost forgotten how enjoyable reading books can be while I was immersed in my "Gilmore Girls" obsession. Now, when I get home from school, I actually have a couple of hours to read. It's fabulous. I may have gotten a trifle carried away when I went to the library.

But I will struggle though. I'm working my way through them. Also, what I find amazing, is how many truly crappy books are out there. I often start two or three books and give up on them before I find something good to read. But I have found a few.

"Switchcraft", by Mary Castillo is about two women who magically switch bodies and lives and is cute, light entertainment.

"The Immortal Highlander", by Karen Marie Moning is a cool fantasy story about elves (think macho elves like Legolas in "Lord of the Rings") and their contact with humans. There is a LOT of, uh, contact, so beware if you don't like that kind of thing. I didn't realize I was starting in the middle of the series until I checked on amazon, but this can be read on it's own. She has written several books about these characters and this world, so check them out.

Duma Key, by Stephen King is about a guy who is badly hurt in an accident and goes to live in Florida where his painting begins to take a creepy turn and his pictures start to show the future. It's typical Stephen King and is definitely a good read.

Blaze, by Richard Bachman (pen name for Stephen King) is one that King wrote years ago but never published. He dug it out of storage, decided it was pretty good, and released it and it is heart-wrenchingly good. It's a story about a kidnapping, but it's not quite that simple.

Up Close And Dangerous, by Linda Howard is an action/adventure story combined with a romance and I just loved it. A couple crash-lands in the wilderness and has to survive on their own. I love a story with a tough, gutsy woman and this one definitely have one.

I'm in the middle of a couple of others and will keep you updated.

What about you? What are you reading?

Teamwork

I put all the comments for the Bloggy Giveaway post into a random number generator and it came out with #73, which was Julie Hudson. Julie does not have a blog, so I contacted her by email so I can send her prize. Thanks for everyone who commented and entered. It was a lot of fun and the number of comments gave me a blog high.

Now, to the subject of the day.


I think I might actually be able to keep losing weight now. I weighed this morning and have lost more weight in the last few weeks than I was able to lose on my own.

Tom has decided to join me in the dieting and exercising. His motive is not vanity like mine, but his health. A much better reason. His doctor had told him he would have to go back on insulin and that is just not acceptable to him. He thinks he can control his diabetes with diet and exercise, like he did when he was first diagnosed. Like me, he let the diet and exercise slide and gained back what he had lost.

Back then, when he was first diagnosed, he was dieting and exercising alone because I was basically just a lazy slob. He was fanatical about walking every single day, no matter what the weather was doing and finally gave up on asking me to go with him. He lost all his extra weight.

Then, I went on several diet and exercise binges and he was not interested.

Now, we in sync. In tune. Together in this plan. We want to be able to retire and be in good health so we can travel the world.

And I think that will make all the difference in the world.

I finally figured out a way to link to Amazon for the books I read and like and want to recommend to you. If you look over on the right at the top, you'll see the link. I'll update it as I find good books you might be interested in purchasing (or checking out at the library!). I'll talk about them more in the post if I think they warrant it. The one over there right now is really good and different. I think you might like it.