One book to go. I can do this. And I actually want to do this. All I have for tomorrow is reading and Church, so it is also very doable tomorrow. Four-ish hours of reading with Danny DeVito, after a night of sleep, of course, here I come!
Post-a-day 2023
Chugging through the books, and chugging through the wedding plans.
God, help me to do all that I need and want to accomplish while on this break from school. Thank you for this life and this man. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2023
I’ve gotten a good amount done today, given that I went for a miniature movie marathon with a girlfriend for several hours – which was awesome, by the way – yet I had only expected to be about two total. I did some tidying at home and some reorganization that seems to be a step very much so in the right direction. I stayed up way later than intended, but even got a lot of folding and putting away of laundry done, too. And, of course, I had an audiobook running that whole time, which was great use of my time.
Thank you, God, for the accomplishments and the love and friendship of today. Help me to make tomorrow another great day, sharing and living your love and helping to be my best self. Thank you for this life and this man and these opportunities. Please, heal those in need of healing and call to you newly all those who most need you. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2023
I have four books to go before the end of the year. I’m already in the middle of a handful of them, so it seems a very doable task. I have one small book I can probably finish reading in less than an hour’s time. But kind of saving that one for when my man is around and I can’t make noise. Otherwise, I have a few audiobooks in the works. I had two that I was well into when they expired recently, and the hold list is forever long still. So, those won’t work. But I have a few other newer ones happening right now that I think I can get done reasonably. I definitely fell behind twice this year, similarly to last year, and so am rushing at the end of the year. But I believe I can do it with reasonable ease. It can be good to do a nice walk with a book, or even a bike ride with an audiobook these next few days. 36 down, four to finish – I can do this! (And I like doing this, truly!)
God, thank you for this life and for this man. Help us always to grow with each other, as well as to grow in your love with one another. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2023
Have you ever avoided finishing a book, because you were enjoying the book so much, you weren’t ready to finish the story of the world within it? Even if you know the ending will be great, just as the book has been great so far, you resist finishing it, so as to live that much longer in the joy of reading the book, being in the middle of such a great story. Ever had that?
I have. I once had it for over a decade, actually, though that was, by far, the longest. It was the last book of a series I had been loving for years. It just wasn’t ready for it all to be over, you know? For there not to be anything else to look forward to reading… Though, by the time I went back to that book, I actually had no idea who several of the characters were and what was going on anywhere near where my bookmark had been. Even when I restarted the book itself, I was lost. It was too important a series to start off the final book confused. So, I then re-read the whole series up to that point, and finally finished the final book 11 years after I’d begun it. It was great, to be sure. But it was also worth waiting those 11 years of anticipation.
Today, I had a similar feeling for a book I had already read – I just wasn’t ready to finish it. However, the feeling wasn’t nearly as strong as that series’s one had been, as I picked ip the book and finished it later this afternoon. But that waiting period still felt great. 🙂
Anyway, happy reading!
Thank you, God, for wonderful books and for reading and knowledge! Amen!
Post-a-day 2023
I have to say: For some reason, I was utterly disinterested in reading The Chronicles of Narnia when I was a kid. We read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in fourth grade, and I enjoyed it. But I never felt a desire to read the other books. I loved other series, but had no interest in that one.
However, now that I’m three quarters through the first book, I’m starting to reconsider. I’ve actually liked this book, and so find it interesting how these stories all tie together, though with different main characters for each book – perhaps that was what had disinterested me back then, a lack of a stable main character. In this case, Narnia is the stable main character, in a way, though it is always kind of the blanket holding everything happening, as opposed to the everything that is happening itself.
Does that make sense to you, too??
Post-a-day 2022
Thank you, Simon and Schuster, for delivering so many wonderful books both to the world and to me personally. I thoroughly enjoy what I have been able to read from your offerings, and I am so grateful you chose to take them on. Without you, many of them might never have reached the public and/or me. So, thank you for saying yes to them. Woohoo!
Yay, books! And yay to good publishing companies! Woohoo!
Thank you, God, for all of it. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2022
And sometimes we look at something and think, ‘Oh! It’s the same both upside down and right side up!,’ and then have to be told that it actually isn’t… But we are dyslexic, so, for us, it is the same both ways! Yippee! One small joy to go with dyslexia, y’all! 😛
May you play today. 😉
Post-a-day 2022
I very distinctly had a desire today – a pull, more like – to read religious books, books that somehow use religion as a foundation for whatever they want to communicate… could be about building a relationship with God, about being a woman today of God, about Church itself, about prayer… whatever. But “Church books” is what came to mind specifically.
Guess I’ll start reading the book Church gave out the other week, then. It was meant to have a book study with it, and I even signed up online to be in a remote group (since I don’t live near that church), but I haven’t heard anything from that since signing up. Perhaps it is time for me just to start myself. If a group pops up later, I can still participate, even if I have already read the thing in its entirety.
Let’s do this.
Thank you, Life, for being a beautiful opportunity for me, and thank you, God, for joining us. Amen.
Post-a-day 2022
I’m reading a sort of murder mystery ‘with a great plot twist’, as it was recommended to me this week. However, I had a sudden panic that there might be a dude living in the walls of this old house. If that is the case, I can not and will not do this book. No way. A film I was semi-forced to watch last year had that in jt, and it is still haunting for me. I just don’t do freaky crap like that. Ugh! I have too good a brain and memory to waste its effort or space on anything of that genre. I love a good problem-solve or Agatha Christie, but this one has me worried. I already have stopped listening to it close to or after dark, and it’s only the second day (and that rule started yesterday, actually). I asked the girl who recommended it to me, and she hasn’t replied yet. I’ve asked a buddy if he would look up a summary for me to find out about that specifically, and let me know if I need to stop reading it, but I haven’t heard back from him yet either. I think he’ll do it, though, as he tends to understand that I am just plain odd, and so something like that is a crazy yet important request for me. That isn’t to say that won’t comment on how bizarre I am, or even make fun of my total wuss-ness. But that is nothing. 😛
I just need to know if I can read this book or not. I’m already freaked out in bed tonight, and I’ve only just started this book! And someone is teaching downstairs but moved the porch monitoring camera, and that has me super freaked out. This book is scaring me, and it isn’t even scary yet… ugh!
Post-a-day 2021
hannah ananas 