"I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything."
- Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls

Most people who know me know how much I love to read. It is a hobby that I have enjoyed since I was a small girl. I started out with favorites such as Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom, Charlotte’s Web by EB White or The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald. In high school I hated being forced to read Shakespeare and The Good Earth but I could be found at the library reading books by R.L. Stein or Lurlene McDaniel. During my college years I discovered the greatness of the classics such as Les Miserables by Victor Hugo or The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and renewed my love of the Anne of Green Gables Series and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. As I have grown my love of books and my library has grown. I now read a little bit of everything. Today I am reading Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen and recently finished the Harry Potter & Twilight Series of books.

For me there is a sense of escape, adventure and intrigue in reading. A chance to delve into the lives of others and empathize and experience the love, pain, circumstances that they are experiencing. I feel that I learn so much with each adventure that I share with the characters that travel the pages of the books I read. You walk the streets with them and each character becomes a friend of sorts.

May each of us discover the great world that awaits us inside each book and each story. Whether it finds you fighting along side the Cullen family or being courted by Mr. Darcy a whole new world awaits you within the pages!

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Before I start what I want to write about today I should state that I just finished reading the Twilight Series this past week. I started Twilight on Sunday evening and finished Breaking Dawn on Saturday afternoon. Breaking Dawn left me thinking a lot about relationships and “the ties that bind”.

Relationships between man and woman, family, friends, adults and children, etc are what make this life worth living. Loving others and being loved by them is what makes the various struggles of mortality worth enduring.

My mind had been swirling around relationships even prior to reading the book. My relationships with all of the people who truly matter in my life. How I relate with my mom, my nieces and nephews, my “sisters”, my friends, my co-workers, my friends that are no longer a part of my life. I questioned the way they feel towards me, how things have progressed. I look at the pictures that surround me both in my apartment and at work and think about these people.

Some of my thoughts deal with my insecurities and thinking if I love them too much and whether or not they love me too. Some of my thoughts deal with how they have factored into my life and what I have learned from the time I have spent with them. Some of my thoughts linger on to situations in their lives and things that they are experiencing.

There are still a lot of thoughts rolling around in my head and even more unanswered questions, but the realization that I have come to is my gratitude for the individuals who walk the paths of my life. The lessons I have learned from my knowing them and the parts that they play in helping my life be better.

So in parting I would like to say thank you. Thank you for the ties that I share with you and the blessings that each of those that truly matter factor into my life.

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I saw this quiz on my friend Merrianne's blog and just had to have some fun and do it too! Here are my results!

You Belong in 1956

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

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I needed something new ... it has been months since I have redone the site's layout. Hope you like. Now that I have spent all morning doing that it is time to go find book 7 of the Harry Potter series and get to reading!

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