The Reading Queen

So I've begun to notice that whenever I'm about to fly to New York I buy a new book. For Thanksgiving it was The Notebook and over Christmas it was Nights in Rodanthe. Yes, I'm a fan of Nicholas Sparks. I can't wait to see My Sister's Keeper in the movies so last week I picked up the book. Now usually, I'm slightly annoyed by a delayed flight, but I started the book and hardly noticed I had been sitting for 3 hours. I started on a Thursday and by Saturday night I was done. It is pretty amazing. I've had a rough couple of days but some of the passages in this book seemed like they were talking right to me. Kind of like I was meant to read them. Corny? Absolutely! Do I really care? Not so much :) FYI, I've completely forgotten how to properly quote from a book so bear with me. Here are my faves:

"There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth."

"We are a study of contrasts-hard to soft, fair to dark, frantic to smooth-and yet there is something about the fit of us that makes me realize neither of us would be quite right without the other. We are a Mobius strip, two continuous bodies, an impossible tangle."

"The earth's axis wobbles. Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be."

"You don't love someone because they're perfect....You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

Since I had finished My Sister's Keeper while still in New York, I picked up Michael J. Fox's Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist. Now I have loved Michael J. Fox since he played Alex P. Keaton. I read his other book and LOVED it so I figured I'd give his new one a shot. With the week I'd been having, I needed a little optimism. I just started it yesterday and I'm halfway done. I've found a couple little gems in it as well. He quotes other people a lot and one by Jim Hightower (no clue who he is) really made me laugh.

"Even a little dog can piss on a big building."

And another by Christopher Reeve states, "Don't give up, don't lose hope, don't sell out."

And this one by Michael J. Fox himself seems to be my favorite, "You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left open in its wake."

I've read all of these at just the right time that I needed to. I know there are no coincidences with the Lord. He knew what i was needing to hear. I share them with you in the hopes that if you need them, here they are, and if not, you know where to find them for future reference.