Week 10

So this week was a little interesting when it came to reading. Lasto t week I started the book Along For the Ride but I left it in Wichita when I went home. I didn't read at all Monday through Friday because I didn't have my book. When I went home on Friday, I couldn't find my book. I asked my husband, DJ if he had seen it and he said he thought he might have packed it. We are getting ready to move out of our apartment in Wichita since he is getting deployed and he packed up the book case and all the random books around the apartment. I decided I would just open the box and get it out, but then found out he had taken a small load Park City, which is where we are storing our stuff, that day. So that left me in a bind. It was already Friday and I hadn't read for the week, so I went to Borders. I bought a new book, also by Sarah Dessen, and the name of it is The Truth About Forever. I only read for the required 90 minutes this week since I wazs on a time crunch, but I am enjoying the book so far. It is about a girl named Macy. It starts off with Macy telling how she had trouble communicating since "it happened." She could barely read and write anymore and she even got the letters mixed up in her own name. Then she met Jason who broke Macbeth down into terms she could understand. From there on out the became good friends and are now dating. Jason was leaving for camp and Macy was taking over his job at the library for the summer. She talks a lot about how perfect Jason is and how she too is striving to be perfect. Then she talks about what had happened that was so traumatizing to her. Her father died in a race that she and he were running. She saw him die and her life changed after that. I have never experienced a traumatic death in my family so I can't even begin to imagine what she is going through. I have had a grandpa die and a couple of great aunts, but nobody in my immediate family. It really makes me feel bad for her even though she says that everyone looks at her in a "you poor thing" way. She doesn't want people to know her as the girl whose father died. I didn't get real far into the book, but I remembered to bring it back to Winfield with me this week. I will have to check Along for the Ride out after I finish this book so I can read more.