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 will actually love the person type casted for Skeeter. She was perfect. Actually all the characters were very well type casted. It was a great movie too.
I also was like you about “The Help” but i finished it in 2 days and loved the movie, even though i agree with you about Emma Stone, it is a great movie! I read Still Alice by Lisa Genova, it is a great book. Happy New Year!
Also my fav of 2011!
Add this to my must read list… it’s growing by the day. I need to read The Help, The Hunger Games, and tons more. I’m the worlds slowest reader. I have too many blogs to catch up with, so my actual book gets pushed to the side. Right now I’m reading the Time Traveler’s Wife and I LOVE it.
Glad you had a good vacation :)
I watched the movie last week. I haven’t read the book, but I LOVED the movie! It was great!
I read The Help last summer (and saw the movie) It was SO good. It was one of those books that I couldn’t put down. I literally sat there and read it cover to cover.
I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with Emma Stone’s performance–I sure was!!! And I have to agree, The Help was a wonderful book. I read it when it first hit the stands and would now like to re-read it!
i loved the help! i think the help and the hunger games series were my favorite books of 2011!
You will not be disappointed in the movie! Very true to the book.
The best book that I read in 2011 was Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy. Has to be the funniest book about pregnancy ever!!!
my favourite book this year was definitely Room. I think it’s one of my all-time favourite books!! So disturbing and fascinating and clever. It was an emotional roller coaster. But if I’m still thinking about a book long after i finished reading it, then i consider it a gooooood book.
by emma donoghue
Oh, I also just finished “How to Love an American Man” — don’t judge a book by it’s title, it was a very sweet and touching story about the life and love lessons a woman learns from her grandmother.
The Kitchen House was also an amazing read — it’s about slavery before the Civil War. I read that right after I read the Help so it was interesting to see how things changed and stayed the same.
Also, I made 60 of your baked crab rangoon for NYE — I think there were maybe 6 left at the end of the night!! They were great =)