Full House

That's right. I said it. Full House. Unfortunately, I didn't mean it in reference to the loveably sacchrin-sweet TV show once staring a pre-bulima Mary Kate Olsen. I am, in fact, referencing my own house, which is currently full of my brother, his wife, his 16-month old son Jackson, my sister, her signifigant other, and their 2 year old daughter Aubrey, as well as my mom and dad. That is a lot of people, and a lot of action, in a not-all-that large house. You may in fact be wondering why I have chosen to tell you this. The only reason I bring it up is that all of these people have drastically impeded my ability to read or focus on much more than "where are the babies", "will you grab me that baby spoon" and "I think someone just fell down the stairs. Uh-oh." I've been making so progress in Special Topics and have kept Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by my bed to squeeze in a few pages before passing out, but that hasn't been going to successfully, either.

I have, however, recently picked up another 8 books from the library, which I have no intention of returning on time, which brings my "To Be Read This Summer" list to about twenty books. If I do the math correctly, I have approximately 8 weeks, which means about 3 books a week, which means a book about every day and a half. And while this may intimidate some people (and I'm not going to lie, it intimidates me a little, too) I am pretty sure that this won't be an issue. A few of the books are re-reads (as in The Kite Runner and Kafka on the Shore, which I remember loving, but I'm a little shady on the details, hence the re-read) and a few of the others are truly just fluff reads (I'm not planning on taking long with, for example, Devil Wears Prada or a short story collection by the FABULOUS Megan Mcafferty). So hopefully I'll get through the list, as most of them are the kind of modern classics that I feel it necessary to read before I head out to the wide world that is college. I feel as though I've covered most of the classics, thanks to phases that took me through Shakespeare, all kinds of poetry, the Beats, Victorian Literature, and most of the NYU undergraduate reading list by the time I was 15 (yeah, I can hear you laughing. So?) So now I plan on focusing on modern stuff, and have been aided by the Three-For-Two tables at Borders.

The only thing I think I'm going to be missing this summer is a longer trip kind of thing. Something akin to a road trip or some other kind of vacation, mostly because this is where most of my heavy-duty reading gets done. I can't really read at work (I mean, I guess I could technically, but I'd get weird looks, and I work with most of my friends, thus lunch = social hour) and I don't really have a lot of time at home (and my parents thought I'd never develope a social life) and its just the kind of thing where it's not a huge bummer, but it would be nice....

.....on a side note, I recently saw the movie Match Point with one Mr. Johnathon Rhys Myers and one Ms. Scarlett Johanson, and it was fabulous. I have always been a fan of Woody Allen movies, but this one imparticular. I know that this is technically a book blog, but I just wanted to mention a recent affinity for this movie and Bright Eyes. If you haven't seen/heard either one, I suggest you give them both a try! And with that, I sign off.