I finished David Copperfield!

Woo hoo! It took me about two months. Not the longest I've invested in a book... with the later Harry Potters going over 900 pgs and Les Miserables averaging about the same. My version had 814 pgs with no pictures or nothing. Of course chapter breaks help... but hey 814 pgs is 814 pgs. I liked the story, and of course Dickens always has great character development and awesome figurative language. Although there wasn't as much figurative language in this one as in A Tale of Two Cites. I liked the parts with HIM in it, like his childhood, his courtship and his marriage. What got to me was the all the conversasions he had with his friends, his employers and his aunt. Mr. Micawber and Mr. Wickfield...I didn't get hardly any of that. But I REALLY liked Mr. Pegotty, Ham, E'mly and Agnes. Dora was just kinda "out there," not really knowing which way was up. But hey, he loved her so she gets my vote. But Em'ly gets a higher one.

I told myself I couldn't read any "fun" books until DC was done... but I managed to squeeze in three. 1) Artemis Fowl Book Three: The Eeternity Cube. 2.) Obsessed by Ted Dekker and 3.) Th3ee by Ted Dekker. My favorite was Obsessed and I'm willing to give Dekker's other books a chance, after previously writing him off for the Circle Trilogy. In my opinion he could have done it alot better...but Sarah's a big fan of him..so I gave him another shot. Obsessed is amazing and I highly recommend it.

Now I've gotta go again to the library and get some other "fun" books to help me get through, The Once and Future King, and The Sound and The Fury, before starting in on Vanity Fair. I have one fun book though, A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks, but I've read it before and it won't take me long to get through it. I'll probably get some other Dekker books, or maybe Peretti or CS Lewis books. I've got Perelandra, but can't start it until Matthew gets back. I'm really excited about That Hideous Strength but everyone highly recommends it. Oh oh, I just finished the BEST book on audio- it makes me want to read the whole book and watch the video, The End of the Spear by Nate Saint. OH MY GOSH ITS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!! He's the best writer and the story is just amazing and hilarious at the same time.

Well, after all this book talk, I'm still watching the clock for it to be 9 pm. 8:30-9 is a notorious time in our house because it's between Full House and Whose Line and nothing of interest is on at 8:30. Isn't that sad? 3-4 pm is also a bad time because it's between an hour of Full House and two hours of MASH. In some ways the summer is really fun, but in other ways I'm almost ready for it to be over and to return to real life. Discovery Health had a segment called "All about babies," on and I killed 3 hrs today watching it, until Dad called and told me he was coming home so I decided to do something constuctive. But hey- it was fun. And I got to watch Dharma and Greg, which I never get to unless I'm home by myself. I did work an hour on my scrapbook, got some World View stuff done and worked on getting my computer ready to be wiped and went to the gym, so the day wasn't a total waste. :-)

PS: Don't see Pirates of the Carribean 2 until the third one comes out because there is no ending!!!! It's a good movie and all.....but man, unless you are expecting it, it can be very frusterating.

PSS: Don't see the Lake House either- too many "time-travel" holes. My friend and I talked about it for a good half hour later trying to figure it out. "Now...what exactly happened???"