Terry's 3M's

Well, I've been busy doing things that I'm not going to describe in detail here. (Laundry, sorting through summer clothes, cleaning the garage, etc.) You know, the mundane chores that everyone has to do now and then.

My brother brought over and gave to me about 150 books over the last few days. So, if I don't update for awhile, please don't get upset. I'll be busy reading.

You see, I would really like to get 4 of those books read by June 2nd. I have a friend who has read these books by taking them out of the library. I think that she might like to have her own copies of these books because she's a big Anne Rice fan.

No, it doesn't bother me to read a book and then give it to her as a present. We have been doing this to each other for years. The Christmas before last, she bought Stephen King's Desperation and after she read it, she gave it to me. I give her horror books that I've read and thought that she might like. Once in a great while, I'll come across a book by a fantasy author that she admires and I'll get the book and give it to her without reading it first because I read very little fantasy.

I finally finished reading Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage by Nicholas Davies. It was published in 1992--before the couple broke up. Mr. Davies had predicted that Diana would stay married to Charles, even though the marriage would be in name only.

I had started reading the book around May of 1996. I put it down when it got to a chapter that had been about Charles' interests. I picked it up a few times during the intervening year plus, but, I never got past that chapter until this week. Now that I've finally finished, I'm feeling like I'd like to finish a few more books that I've started a long time ago and have never finished.

Anyone who has followed the links from my I Love to Read page or that has been reading these pages for a while knows that I don't just read a book every two years. It's just that I often have as many as a dozen books or more books started and sometimes I just pick up another and read that one all the way through. Not very efficient, maybe, but, it seems to work for me.

Although there are somedays when I wish I could do what I did when I was single and didn't own a TV. Every so often, I would just spend a day reading--from the time I got up until the time I went to bed. I think my record was 5 Perry Mason mysteries in one day.

Like many overweight people, I don't always eat breakfast (I was so busy today that I didn't eat anything until dinner--about 7PM). I usually live on coffee or tea or Diet Pepsi until somewhere between noon and 2 PM when I realize that I haven't eaten anything and I've gotten hungry. Intellectually, I know that eating several times a day would help to straighten out my metabolism. But, on the physical level (or perhaps subconsciously) I just get busy and forget.

Anyway, in case I don't make an entry for a week or two, it's because I'm going to try to get some reading done.

Besides the books that I mentioned above, I will probably want to read along with the SKEMers (Stephen King E-Mailers--a mailing list that I have subscribed to for over a year). The reading agenda is the books that are set in the town of Castle Rock. This means rereading: The Dead Zone, Cujo, "The Sun Dog" from Four Past Midnight, The Dark Half and Needful Things. Quite an agenda.

I'd like to get as much read as I can before the kids are out of school for the summer. But, once the kids are out of school, I think I'm going to make everyone sit and read for about an hour a day. They really could use the practice anyway.

Well, I'd better try to get this uploaded in a hurry. It's past kids bedtime already and my son gets very upset if I don't tuck him in after prayers. He says that he'll out grow this when he turns 8. Since he turns 8 on Wednesday, this I gotta see.

Thanks to for the border background set.