Michelle Only Wants to Read > Recent Status Updates

After 10 days of vacation, I'm back.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this book. Even though I've seen the movie already, it's nice to know how the story really goes, sans Hollywood interpretation.

One can't just simply break promises to their children. I said I would read it, so here it goes.

Fascinating little stories. It certainly makes you question your everyday events.

I'm finding this book quite funny and interesting. I know some of these things because of the nature of my field, but when translated to apply to myself, they become comical.

Just today, I was guilty of four branding and mental brainwashed behaviors, lol. This is awesome.

I haven't been able to put this book down since last night. Lovely.

"...On the other hand, if you hear a news story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious."

Wrapping up the year with some fun non-fiction enlightenment.

Organizing and shelving my books.

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Organizing and shelving my books.

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Oh man, I can't imagine this one having a happy ending. I'm keeping my Klennex box near by.

It only took me forever to get to this book, but I'm finally on it. First time using iBooks. I don't think it's giving me the real page number though. It'll be hard to track my progress. It's telling me it has 575 pages, and the book is only 343. Weird.

After reading GR's gender infographic, I decided to look at my data and see what I could come up with. I found a theme of recurring authors. This are my results:

Stephen King: 5 Books
George R.R. Martin: 2 Books (fat ones!)
Chuck Palahniuk: 2 Books

I see a trend here...

"I'm enjoying this book so far, but for Pete's sake! Rose drives me nuts. The therapist in me wants to sit down with her and work on her irrational thinking. She would benefit from some good 'ol REBT coping skills. Stop shoulding yourself, Rose!"

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”
Amen!

I was reading this book tonight with a kids night lamp during a power outage. Priceless!

I think I'm finally getting to the juicy part. Liking it so far.

"Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves--like Con manufactured his muteness--but they can't help it. It's he way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion." ...they can also use some CBT, me says.

I knew I recognized the narrator's voice (Simon Vance). He's Louis from Interview with the Vampire!

"But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens wells of memory that were previously capped." (p.25)

Because a book written under the perspective of a 7th grader about his alien friend is the perfect choice to read after finishing A Dance With Dragons.

No, you didn't...! NO! NOO!

Why? WHY?!