Six-Word Memoirs and Other Ideas

At work on Friday I found this fun little book called I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-word Memiors from Teens Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith. It was quite amusing - some of the answers were quite creative/clever and some were heartbreaking. It is a cool little book - I'd like to find the other books in this series.

After quickly reading that book, I also finished Libyrinth. This was a very interesting book - the ending seemed a bit too easy in my opinion, but it was still good - enough that I almost suggested it for the next Lemmings read. In thinking about an earlier comment I made on this book, I'm not sure I can say I like the books talking to her as much as I did before. I realized that having the book speak itself to Haly is sort of like listening to a book on tape (or CD), which I've tried to do and just can't quite succeed with - I like to be able to turn back the pages a bit too much. I loved all the quotes from other books though! I think my favorite was "The most dangerous parasite of Pern was Thread" (I'm not sure I have the exact phrase anymore) Dragonflight or any Pern/McCaffrey book is cool, and I'm almost surprised to have found it there. I was also amused that we were discussing Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl a bit at bookclub yesterday as it is the most quoted book in the story.

I'm now reading a book called The Missing by Shiloh Walker (funny side note - when I was searching through the visual bookshelf list on Facebook to add this one to my list two other books we'd discussed as possible next Lemmings' reads showed up in it - I'm not sure why they were in the list - possibly Miss was accepted as matching Missing). I'm rather enjoying this so far, but I'm mad at both Cullen (although him first) and Taige. They shouldn't have fought the way they did. However, if I remember the back of the book properly, they'll meet up again, so that should be good, though perhaps a bit awkward. I'm also some what confusing Cullen up with Edward from the Twilight series - I'm not sure why it's only him - unless perhaps because he's one of the leads and the only one of the Cullens to qualify for that. I'm not yet too far in, but hopefully I'll be able to fix that this week - something about three days in a row off, essentially - especially when I'll be the only one home during the day, seems to make that a bit easier. However, I better not spend too much time online, or that just won't happen. I'm not planning on letting that happen, however, I've got too many good books waiting (there's three, at least, that I want to be the next one I read - which can't quite happen. One of them will have to be first).