Book worm

Those who know me know that I am always on the search for a good book.  However, just like with music and tv, I have no imagination and parasitically prey off of my others friends likes/interests.  So goes my incestual relationship with books.  I (gasp!) was a fan of the Twilight books even though they got increasingly hard to swallow as the series went on.  While waiting for yet another delayed southwest flight I picked up the book "The Host" and promptly took off the book jacket so no strangers knew what I was reading.  This book took me at least a week to finish.  Oh, and one day was a snow day so that's even worse.  This means it wasn't very good.  Good/decent books take one-three days to finish.  

People, I embrace fantasy with open arms.  If this book had had a dragon, it might have been decent.  Honestly, nothing bad happened to anyone.  This book is about "souls" who come to earth to prey/live in human bodies.  However, some humans do not let 

the "body snatchers" take their bodies.  So, the soul and human become bffs while the "body snatcher" steals her body.  Which leads to weird human/body snatcher love triangles.  Now, don't get me wrong, I read it all.  It didn't suck.  But it wasn't awesome like Twilight either.  It actually was like all the bad parts of that book put together.  

And while I'm on the subject of dorkiness let me relate a little Harry Potter convo I had with two students earlier this week.  

Student 1 we'll call Herb.  Student 2 I'll call Little Timmy.  

Herb- "Mrs. P, does Harry ever defeat that evil bald guy?" (Herb has a debilitating lisp, by the way)

ME- "Well, do you really want me to ruin the surprise?"

Herb- "Yeah"

Me- "Yes, Harry triumphs over evil"

Herb- "Does Harry marry that girl with curly hair, what's her name?"

Me- "Hermione"

Herb- Insert massacre of Hermione's name here.  

Me "Her-my-oh-nee" (just like the book, tee hee!)

Herb "Huh-mii oh nee"

Little Timmy- "Yeah, when does that girl turn into a wolf?"

Me "What girl? Are you talking about Professor Lupin??"

Little Timmy- "No, the girl, she gets a wolf head"

Me "You mean when Hermione takes Polyjuice potion and turns into Pansy Parkinson's Cat?"

Little Timmy "Yeah I think so"

Herb "What about that guy with the beard?"

Me "Dumbledore"

Herb "Dum ba doow"

Me "Yup"

So I guess what I'm trying to say is my kids don't read and Harry Potter is SO not conducive to children with speech impediments.  

PS I know no one but LP/Aunty M cared about that little dialogue.  Oh well!

Love, Kaley

OK, PS, while I was searching for a picture of Hermione turning into a cat I found some anime pictures of Ron and Hermione making out.  Also, an anime picture of her skirt blowing up in the wind (?!)

Oh, and this little gem: