Merry Christmas!

I decided for today I would share some of my favorite images of Christmas

From ldssmile.com

Thank you mormonwoman.org

Such a true quote! Image courtesy of Pinterest

Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings Me...

So I know that Santa isn't bringing me any books this year....my Santa actually gave me this:

Complete series of the Gilmore Girls! And I am super stoked!

But it would be great if I use some of my book buying Christmas money for...

1. Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen 
2. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3. The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
4. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
5. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
6. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster
7. 40 Days with the Savior by Connie E. Sokol
8. If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths by Sheri Dew
9. The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
10. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

All of these are books I haven't read...but really want to read--maybe if they are in my house I would! (Ha ha ha :P)

December Classics Club Meme Question

So I have been a non-participatory Classics Club member the last little while. This question grabbed my attention this month as I started to want to move back into being more of an active member.

Let’s do this again: What is your favorite classic book? If you already answered this question in August 2012, great! Tell us what you picked then, and if your answer has changed in the last year and a half. If you are new since that meme, what is your favorite classic as of today? (Yes, you can of course list multiple books.)

Of course, I have multiple favorite classic books! I have talked about my all-time favorite book was The Blue Castle on here before.  And I have talked about A Tale of Two Cities on here too.  So I thought that for my answer today I would talk about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

I have always loved Little Women. I remember when I first read it from the library--I think I was in middle school. And I was becoming a bit of a romantic.  P.S. There will be spoilers if for some reason you haven't read the book. But when Laurie proposed to Jo and she said no....I was so shocked I threw the book against the wall.  I was sooo mad at her!! I was soo soo mad.  I felt so bad for Laurie and felt like he had the right to be best. I was eventually okay with how it ended with Amy and Dr. Bauer, but I still loved the Laurie and Jo relationship.

As I have gotten older, I have better perspective on Jo and I understand why she says no to Laurie and I am glad with her relationship with Dr. Bauer--but I still have sympathy for Laurie every time I get to that point in a re-read. And I have also come to love the Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder movie---like it or not--it is cute :)

So what is your favorite Classics book?

Very cute :)

#ReadingCram Wrap-Up

This has been a great week and a half! Even though I had hoped to get a lot of reading done and not get distracted by a lot of things around me--but considering I haven't finished two books in this amount of time in a long time, it is an achievement for me.  I am almost done with Insurgent and I still want to try to finish it this year...though my ambition to finish so much of the Book of Mormon was a bit high--though halfway through by the end of the year. I am hoping that this #ReadingCram will help me keeping going through the end of the year.

So what did I accomplish this #ReadingCram....

I finished

As an audiobook! Not sure how many pages that ended up being

Started on page 239 and then finished on 322

Currently still reading:

Started on page 72 now on page 136

Started on page 112  and currently on 268

Audiobook as well...started during reading cram and I am on disc 4

I haven't ever really done page counts...but I like how that looks.  I read 300 pages...which is like a whole book from start to finish.  Not bad considering my full-time job, tired brain, and other obligations.

One thing that I will definitely miss with this challenge is not having to come up with blog posts each day--the challenges did that for me;.  Thank you to Dana and Jenny for their efforts with that--it was great to be able to do some fun things with my posts each day!

As I look at the last week and half or so of my #365 project--I have LOTS of ideas of what to do for 2014 and a few for the rest of the year--just need to put pen to paper so I don't forget them all!