Teaser Tuesdays - April 26th, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•Grab your current read

•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"Space exploration can be seen as a continuation of humanity's need to explore, to push the limits of the frontier.  With future population pressures and the speedy consumption of natural resources, space exploration and colonization may one day become a necessity." page 18 of Space Exploration for Dummies by Cynthia Phillips, PhD and Shana Priwer

I know it may not sound like an interesting book to some people, but I've always loved learning about space.

Musing Mondays - April 25th, 2011

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  This week's musing is:

Do the members of your family read? Do you think it was passed down to you? ((or, if you want you can answer this: Who do you think influenced you as a reader?))

Most of my family reads, but I definitely read the most (maybe excluding my brother).  My mom and dad probably each read a book or two a month at some points and then don't read as much for a few months.  My sister goes through periods (usually during the summer) when she can read a ton, and then she'll go without reading for months at a time.  My brother's probably the only one in the family who comes close to reading as much as I do.  Sometimes he reads more than me.  He usually reads books multiple times though because he gets interested in them.  (Keep in mind that he's 11 and most of the book's he's reading are nonfictional about space or something like that.  He's also obsessed with the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.)  Most of my extended family on my dad's side reads a decent amount.  I don't think people on my mom's side read quite as much.

I definitely think my love for reading comes mainly from my family.  My parents and grandma used to read to me for hours every day.  I'd fill a wagon with books and made sure they'd read every single one to me by the end of the day.  That's how I spent most of my time as a kid especially at our old house and before I started school because there weren't any kids my age to play with.

I'd have to say my parents and grandma influenced me most as a reader because they were usually the ones who read to me as a little kid.  If they hadn't, who knows if I'd read as much as I do now.

Happy Easter!

This isn't going to be like my normal posts.  I just got home from Easter Vigil mass (My favorite mass of the year.), and I wanted to post something quickly to wish all of you guys a very happy Easter.  Easter and Christmas are tied as my favorite holidays.  (Easter beats Christmas when it comes to church, but I like Christmas more for non-religious reasons-like presents.)  I hope you all have a very happy Easter, and if you don't celebrate Easter, a happy Sunday.

There's also something that I wanted to post really quickly because I've been meaning to say this for a while.  Right now, this blog has 21 followers.  I've decided that once it hits 25 followers I'll do a giveaway, so spread the word and get people to follow!

Now, I'm going to go try and get things done before I fall asleep.  (I'm amazed that I stayed awake during mass.  There were some close calls.)

Happy Easter everyone!

Booking Through Thursday - Cover

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme.  This week's question is:

CAN you judge a book by its cover?

In some ways, I think you can. There are some things you can learn about the book from the cover (if people have done their job well). The cover can probably give you some idea of what the book's about, and it may show you that you probably wouldn't like the book. For example, if you don't like romance, you could probably tell it's a romance book from it's cover. However, I don't think you can completely judge a book by it's cover. To do that you have to actually read the book.

Books I Want to Read

I know I did a post kind of like this before, but I decided to do another one today.  I have a huge list of books to read, and no where near enough time to read them all.  I don't even want to know how many books are currently sitting on my shelves, in my closet, or where ever I could find room for them.  That I have yet to read.  I'm going to share a few of the books that I am most dying to read.

Cassandra Clare's books.  I have City of Bones sitting on my desk waiting to be read.  Hopefully I'll get around to it soon, but I'm trying to get through some of the books that I've had longer first.

Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori.  I've read volumes one through five, and I have volumes six, eight, and nine sitting on my desk.  The rest will be bought sometime in the future.  They're quick reads, so it's hard to convince myself to wait instead of just picking them up now and reading them.

The Darwin Award books.  My AP biology teacher has a couple of these in her classroom, and we've read some of the stories in class.  They were so hilarious that I had to go out and buy one of the books so that I could read it all the way through.  I have yet to get around to it.

The Twilight Saga:  The Official Illustrated Guide.  I'm not even sure if I got the title exactly right, but it's close enough for you guys to know what I'm talking about.  I feel like a bad Twilight fan because I haven't even bought it yet.

I could probably think of more, but I think those are the ones I want to read the most right now.

I'm thinking about doing this same type of post only about DVDs too because I have a bunch of those that I've bought or want to rent that I haven't gotten to watch yet.  I haven't even bought the Deathly Hallows Part 1 DVD yet.  (So, in addition to being a bad Twilight fan, I'm also being a bad Harry Potter fan.  I need to fix that soon.)

What about you guys?  What books do you most want to read right not.