We’re home sweet home!
Although it will be nice to get back into a normal routine, we were really sad leaving Washington DC and my in-laws this morning. Eight days out there completely flew by, and it stunk seeing our vacation come to an end. :(
I should really spend tonight unpacking, getting started on my massive to-do list, and taking down Christmas decorations (xmas decor on display after the holidays is always a little depressing, don’t you think?) but instead I’m going to enjoy what’s left of my vacation and finish reading New Moon. :)
I started it on our first flight today and got swept away in the land of vampires and warewolves. Again. It’s my second time reading it, muwahaha!
OMG, that reminds me, I finally read The Help!
I’m not sure what took me so long – I think I believed it to be over hyped – but I was 1,000% wrong. I started it on our first flight out to DC last week, and finished it the same day. I do believe it was my favorite book of 2011!
Now I’m just dying to see the movie even though Emma Stone, who plays Skeeter, couldn’t be further from the skinny, awkward character I grew to love from the book.
Readers & viewers – what did you think?
It was also kind of neat that we saw the brand new Martin Luther King Jr Memorial out in DC this week, after I finished reading it.
Inspirational.
Striking.
AMAZING! :D
What was your favorite book of 2011? Read any good ones over the holidays?
You should read Half Broke Horses and The Glass Castle, both by Jeanette Wells. Very good, both are true stories of her family.
Read it. Saw it. Love it. The only book I’ve ever read where the movie is just as good.
Its so hard to pick just one!! But I guess my top five would be Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett, The Help, and the Huger Games trilogy. All so very different, but all so very good!!
Ken Follett is one of my FAVES! :)
You should read “One Day.” I haven’t seen the movie, but the book was my favorite from 2011.
This was my fave book of the year too! I adore Emma Stone and the acting in the movie was great. I think I enjoyed the book more, though, just because there’s never enough time in a film to share all of the details like a book. Still worth watching though! I’m currently reading (and loving) The Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski.
And the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial? Wow. Amazing photos, Kristin!
Hunger Games= Awesome! Such good books, I got them on my kindle all at the same time and I’m so glad I did! Funny too, I thought they needed to make it into a movie and so it was awesome when I found out they are! Now I have that to look forward to, since Harry is over and Twilight is winding down :( Also I love Laurie Notaro’s books, I read “It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy” in 2011. I have read all her books and I am not allowed to read them in public because I start laughing while reading them :)
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio. AMAZING book. I knew from the moment I picked it up that I wouldn’t be able to put it down until I finished it. And…I didn’t :-)