happy almost summer!

August 23rd, 2008:  i started this post back in June of this year!  i figured i might as well finish it up…so enjoy the time lapse sequence! haha!

yowsahs!!

i can hardly believe it’s been almost 2 months since i’ve posted. :-O

what’s funny is that every so often i’ve stopped by, checked out my stats, started a post, and then said to myself, “blehblehblehbleh…”  LOL…i just havent been able to even write down a simple, “hola! i’m still here!” hehe!  i’ve been been out of blogging mode i guess!

so to answer rolando’s comment on my last post, YES, i’ve still got my nose stuck in books! hehe!  i feel badly, because my blog buddy, amy, had asked me a few months ago if i’d want to do a book review blog with her, and i told her i just havent been into reading.  and i’ve read consistently since then!!  LOL!  i suppose she lit the spark in me!

welp, after i read A Series of Unfortunate Events, i read Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.  yeah, can you believe i never read it as a kid?  well, now i know where Long John Silver came from.  and the funny thing is that he was the ship’s cook! LOL! (and he was deadly, just like the food at LJS…hahaha…)  too funny, huh!?  the story didn’t end quite as magnificently as i’d imagined, but to think that it was written over 120 years ago is very cool.

then, i randomly plucked a book from the library’s new release shelf.  i like to do that once in a while to keep things interesting.  of course, i always read the back so if it’s way out of my league i dont want to take a chance. :D  but this time, i grabbed The Ex-Debutante by Linda Francis Lee.  i had a great time reading it!  other than a random bit of language and a few very short and somewhat humorous sex escapades, the story was fun and the reading hilarious!  it’s probably the most modern novel i’ve read as far as containing current pop culture allusions and a conversational style of writing close to how we casually speak today.  i quite enjoyed it!

just last week i finished the first book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery.  *** TWO MONTH PAUSE…LOL! ***  okay so now i’m on book 6 of the series. hehe!  i LOVE them!!  yeah, i know, they’re old-fashioned and goodygoody.  but hey, that’s me, and i am thoroughly enjoying them!  i’ll give a review once i’m done with the whole series :)

so now, while still reading the Green Gables books, i’m also reading The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health.  it’s not necessarily what you’re thinking; it’s about how an overgrowth of the candida yeast in our digestive systems can wreak havoc on your health and cause symptoms that doctors just can’t pinpoint.  and it’s caused by our DIET! (too much refined carbs and sugar!)  some women (AND men! so think about it, too, guys) live in unresolved and undiagnosed misery for years when finally they discover through their own research they may have candida overgrowth.  it happens to have a connection with endometriosis, too (which as you may or may not know, i have).  i’ll talk more about this one soon as well!  in the meantime, i recommend this book to any woman who isnt in perfect health!!  and men, check out The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough.

so that wraps up MOST of my summer of reading!  i’ve read more, but i picked out what i’ve enjoyed the most. :)

OH and i also became a member of goodreads.  VERY cool website.  if you read at all, you should check it out!  feel free to add me!

what have YOU been reading this summer?? :)

~josey~