12-Step Program for Bibliophilia :)

Okie dokie, artichokies :) Here's the deal: -because I have all sorts of free time on my hands *insert your best version of hysterical laughter or scoff here* -because I have a $20/day reading habit -because I'm curious What great and/or terrible books are you currently reading that I should be reading (or shouldn't, for that matter)? I'm looking for a few good books...

Up the Random Tributary Without any Visible Means of Propulsion

For the Sparkly, Phenomenal Miriam Grace Raining Cats and Dogs With a few hisses thrown in for good measure "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another" -Proverbs 27:17 BUBBS Warrior Princess...Chai at Commons...Sins of Incontinance and 1 Leopard Spotted Dress...DON RAGS DOOM...Bonum, Veritas Pulcher...Dante, Dante, Dante...Gelato: Lemon and Dark Chocolate...Internet Cafes..."No, I'm not lost, I know EXACTLY where the Trevi Fountain is"...Frozen Artichoke...I'm so NOT obsessed with stars...Pizookie love at B.J.'s...Reynolds making up a song about *nudist* tendencies...12th Century Church that's a 4th Century Church that's a 1st Century Warehouse...LOTR with two hotties and massage chairs at SharperImage...No Worries...Harmonizing with Prince of Egypt..."YOU have such excellent taste/Chinese Chipendale"...Oh, you're supposed to eat the seeds of the Pomegranite?...Ben and Jerry's Brownie Batter fests...3rd St. Promenade...I don't need to buy more pens, I can stop any time I want to...asleep at the Opera (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)...San Diego with Perry the Penguin...sneaking into Grandma's back yard...High Tea with clotted cream and lemon curd...Winston Churchill...Philipino Mafioso...J-Bird and MirCat's London Adventure...B and B in York with :P mushrooms...Every cinema should be converted into a bookstore...ComedySportz...You can never wear enough glitter...Vice Supreme High Dictator for Life...monster friend and shelt in a pelt...walking along the canal by moonlight...HobNob time...SkinMarket...Wear the Pelican Theater outfit (Oh, I mean Taboo Gentlemen's Club)...the seven stars...reciting Romeo and Juliet on an Italian balcony...The chocolate is SO much better...Ginger and Stellie...Legolas cutout...La Habra Woods with a very sparkly, starry Target shower curtain...Sheltie talk, and talk, and talk...Chocolate Chip Cookie Torture...illicit photo shoots with Massinger...PROVING MONTAIGNE WRONG

Dearest Friend

Beloved Charles: "Dearest Friend" That's what John Adams and his wife Abigail called each other, and I am blessed to share that bond with you. Since we met: 11 months, appx. 330 days, 7920 hours, 475,200 minutes (give or take a few ;)-remember, I'm an English major, not a math major). In almost exactly 6 months, I will be your wife. It was in darkness that you left me, love, With a kiss I can still feel in my toes,

Warming me even now. Your words, taped on my mirror, were sweeter still. You are home, your presence lingers here. My thoughts fly apart, To that day Two will be one. You think you are weak... yet you have the strength to live virtuously in a world full of evil and shame. You think you are unattractive... yet your soul shines brighter than any star I've seen, calling me from a distance. You think you are unlearned... yet you read me perfectly when I don't know myself. You think you don't have the proper words to speak... yet you are listening with your heart, cuttingthrough my endless supply of words. You think you are impatient... yet injustice must be swiftly ended. I love you, more than I ever thought possible, and in you I understand that "to love another person IS to see the face of God". When you ask me how I can love you, I tell you that it is because Love Himself has loved me and then given you to me, and you are infinitely valuable On this night, as I think of you, the words of an old, familiar song come to mind. I share it with you now: Geoff Moore and the Distance If You Could See All of my life, I have dreamed That somehow love would find me Now I can't believe you're standing here If beauty is all in the eye Of the beholder Then I wish you could see The love for you that lives in me (Chorus) And you would know you have my heart If you could see, What I see: That a treasure's what you are If you could see What I see Created to be The only one for me. If you could see, What I see I know there are days when you feel So much less than ideal Wondering what I see in you. It's all of the light and the grace; Your belief in me drives me to say That I promise you A faithful love, forever true (Chorus) If you could see, Then you'd understand Why I fall down to my knees And I pray my love Will be worthy of The one who gave his life So our love could be. If you could see what I see (x2) You're created to be The perfect one for me If you could see What I see. If beauty is all in the eye Of the beholder, then I Am beholding... True beauty.