I read a lot of books in 2009, 23 to be accurate. I discovered the best time to read is while I get a bath, so every night I had a little 30 minute escape to get my bath and read. I’m hoping I’ll get to read 25 books this year. I finished my first one last night…Dean Koontz’s “Your Heart Belongs To Me”. Not my favorite, I wouldn’t recommend this one. I read a lot of Dean Koontz books though and the ones I would recommend include “The Husband”, “Odd Thomas”, “The Darkest Evening of the Year”, and my favorite one “Watchers”.
I want to read “Breathless” but after that I may take a break from Koontz for a while. Other ones I read that I would recommend include “The Lucky One” by Nicholas Sparks and “The Time Travelers Wife” by Audrey Niffeneggar.
My next one is “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown. Travis just finished it. He reads much faster than me and he likes Sci Fi books. I’m not sure if I have a genre I really like yet, but I do enjoy mysteries it seems.
In other Almand Family news…Arwen’s still not quite walking yet by herself, but she’s talking a lot more now. Her vocabulary include dog, ya-ya (for Anya), bye bye, ma ma, hi, and her favorite…Da da!
Anya is going back to gymnastics this week and I’m going to have to push her to work on the bars more. She’s still not wanting to do skin the cat, which is a basic flip on the bars, so she’s been banned from having lollipops until she starts! I didn’t want to go those measures but I also want her to be able to conquer her fears. So, until she does an actual skin the cat by herself, no more lollipops. She gets to go to see 101 Dalmatians the Musical tomorrow night with her buddy Acacia and Acacia’s Mommy and me. It should be fun.
And Travis and I are counting the days to our 10 year Anniversary!