Since baby Harrison has come along, time has become so much more precious than it used to be, for many reasons. Every minute of the day is like money being spent, and naturally, we want to spend it on things we want and need, not the things that don't matter.
For that reason, I would like to say, that if the book I am currently reading was an actual book and not a downloaded iBook on my iPad, I would throw it out the window right now. I have spent five-hundred pages of my life (which equals who knows how many hours) getting into this dumb story about this girl trying to figure out what killed her brother and a few other people in town. A murder mystery, right? Not so much. Some idiot character in the book actually saw her brother get killed and just didn't want to tell anyone (until page 502) because it turns out, he was eaten alive by a walking corpse wearing a 3-piece suit in a cemetery. Are you f*&!ing kidding me?! There is a giant pile of laundry in the corner of my bedroom that needs folding!! Oh, and by the way, he was gay and dying of AIDS but was scared to tell ya, lady. THAT'S the part of the story she found unbelievable, by the way. "But...why didn't he just tell me he was gay?" Beware the FREE DOWNLOADS on iBooks. When was the last time you walked into a Barnes & Noble and were just handed a book? "Here. Free of charge. Our gift to you." NEVER. I should have thought of that two weeks ago when I started this..."novel". NOTHING worth having is ever free.
"He looked back as the creature popped out one of Nick's eyeballs, devouring it with what looked like an insatiable hunger."
There are no words...
Anyhoo, that wasn't even going to be my point, but this just happened to me last night, while Peyton was out of town and my time was therefore all-the-more precious. There are no less then nineteen other things I could have been doing that I would not be embarrassed to talk about today. Now I've totally forgotten what I was going to say in the first place - which adds about ten minutes to the amount of my life this book stole from me, because that's how long I just wrote about it. Sheesh.
The good news is, this led me to discovering an app called Overdrive Media Console, which allows you to download eBooks and audiobooks from your local library for free. So next time, I won't have to worry about the cost of a book, and can just read something worthwhile instead.
Seriously...he got eaten alive.
I'm so sorry, Harrison.
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