Mindless ramblings on books and movies… 🙂
I was out running errands the other day and I just couldn’t resist stopping at the library. I had been purposefully staying away, trying to read some books that I have here at home, but the lure of the library (and the bookstore) are sometimes just too strong for me to resist. I went with a purpose though, to try to find a short, light, Christmas type book to read here at the holidays. Last year I bought a paperback in Walmart by Debbie Macomber, one of my favorite “women’s” authors, and I enjoyed reading it during the holidays. I like having something Christmas-y to read this time of year. I looked under her name first at the library, and found two Christmas themed books, and grabbed both of them. I’ve already read one of them, a really short, small book called “Can This Be Christmas”, about a group of weary travelers stranded by a blizzard, stuck at a train depot in the Northeast on Christmas Eve. It was a really short book, but sweet and happy and had a good message about the real meaning of Christmas. I also picked up another one called “The Christmas Basket”, that I haven’t read yet. I’m still working on the second book in the Beverly Lewis Amish series, and I am really enjoying those books.
I also picked up a cookbook from the New books section at the front of my library. It’s called “Eating Well Serves Two” and I hope to get time to go through it and maybe copy out some recipes before it’s due back after the new year. Since I cook almost exclusively for two, and this one is a healthy type book, it seemed perfect for me. Can’t wait to go through it… I tend to read cookbooks like regular fiction books!
I went and got my hair cut yesterday and the girl that cuts my hair had a big bag of paperbacks that she was going to give away. All she asked was that if I read them, that I bring them back another time and leave for someone else to pick up and read. That kind of plan suits me just fine, and so I just quickly grabbed a couple of books from the bag. I saw Nora Roberts name and realized she had a trilogy, called the Circle Trilogy, and without reading the jacket, just said, I’ll take these and read them and get them back to you next year. Well. I have liked what few books I have read by Nora Roberts, but when I got home, I read the inside jacket and found out these are about vampires and witches and sorcerers, so not at all what I thought they were going to be! I’ll see after the holidays if I like them, they were free and I can give them a try. I sort of hate to take them back without reading them… I don’t want to appear ungracious, but I’m not sure these are the kinds of books I want to be reading! 🙄
As for movies, we’re still watching a lot of movies on our new digital cable and free HBO. They are not having a lot of good movies available “On Demand” right now, although we’ve watched a couple of mediocre, older movies lately. Last night, we thought about going to rent one, then decided to be lazy and finally enter the 21st century. Yes, we had never done a Pay-Per-View movie until last night. We went through the list and found 2 or 3 that are on my rental list, and Tim was being very sweet and offered to let me pick one (aka, a “girl” movie). I picked “The Lake House” with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. I liked it, it was sweet and sappy and predictable, but more than that, it was clean and had a happy ending. My kind of movie. I really liked it and enjoyed it. Except, that our company came in about 3/4 of the way through it and proceeded to heckle and make fun of my movie. Because of the time sliding aspect of the movie and the overall sappiness of it. I told them to please not make fun of my movie, I wanted to enjoy it. Which I did, but they got Tim going and then he proceeded to make fun of it. Anyway, Tim gets the next choice and he indicated that he wants to watch… sigh….why do guys like things like this… his choice is — Larry the Cable guy, or Inspector something or whatever that movie is. Big Sigh. I’m sure I won’t like it nearly as much as Tim, but then again, I’m sure I enjoyed “The Lake House” a lot more than he did too! 🙂
How about another Question of the Day: What was the last movie you rented that you really liked?
I think she would totally understand if you brought them back and say you tried it but they weren’t for you, you don’t have to read them! I personally wouldn’t want to read stuff like that! She might not even ask you if you wait a month or so to take them back.
Surely that wasn’t MY daughter that made fun of your movie! I had that on my rental list and MY son made fun that I wanted to watch it! Recently Don was channel surfing and stopped on something on CMT (which he never does!) but it had the blue collar comedy guys on and they would do some interview stuff and then some comedy stuff…..Larry the cable guy had a really foul mouth!
I’ll have to think about the last movie we rented that I really liked……….this week we rented The Sentinel and XMen 3; the boys watched XMen, not me but I watched Sentinel with them. I can’t remember what we rented before those!
You know, I honestly can not remember the last time I rented a movie. It’s been YEARS. Many many years. I don’t think that K and I have ever rented a movie together. We have so many that we’ve bought…. have to catch up on seeing those first, probably. We have dozens of DVDs we’ve never even seen, so we can always just grab one from our own library! Lol.
I belong to Netflix. I just watched “Inside Man”. Except for some of the language/one violent scene (which later was shown to be an act) it was a really good movie. I do chick flicks more than anything. I just watched Rumor Has It, Failure to Launch, and have Firewall next in the list to watch.
Please read my blog on the health update, I have been meaning to get back to you. All the tests came back inconclusive. So I am back to birth control several times a day. I am sure that I am fun to live with for my husband. But he did sign on for better or worse and in sickness and in health, but I wonder if anywhere I said overhormonal? 🙂
Hugs,
Becca
We’ve been watching Hill Street Blues through Netflix recently. I’m trying to remember the last movie I watched at home. We’ve seen The Nativity Story a couple times now in the theater – that was really good.
I checked Netflix – no wonder I was having trouble remembering! The last few movies have been ones for Jono. Lawnmower Man was one, that was okay. I got Kate and Leopold to watch again (I had already seen it), but it was nice to watch again.
I have had that happen – pick up a book by another author and it is like a whole other genre. No bueno. Let’s see – the last good movie. I did like The Lake House. I also liked Heaven and the Man Who Cried – both with Cate Blanchett.
I forgot that we also rented Firewall! Pretty suspenseful.
Sorry about the books…I’d return them, too. You have so many other great books that you’ve yet to read!
I almost rented the Lake House a few weeks ago. I’d never heard of it but the back of the DVD box looked interesting. I ended up getting something else, though…but I put it on my to-rent list for later. I’m glad to hear it’s good, from someone else, now I will be more likely to rent it.
The last one I rented that I loved was “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”. It’s over 10 years old, but it was really good. I always enjoy Johnny Depp. 🙂
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