Catching Up on My Reading Resolution

I've been working on my second book of the year.  I have been trying to keep up with my New Year's resolution of reading at least one book a month. I use to be really into to reading, and then, well life happened. Now I'm just trying to fit it in as much as possible.

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, as most of you know, is about a time traveler (of course), Henry who meets Clare, and keeps up with her through out all stages of her life and weds her.  I actually did not know it was a book before I started seeing trailers for it on tv. It appealed to me and like the nerd I am I researched it. My husband thinks I'm nuts for having rules for certain things. And he laughs at this one : I will not watch a movie before I read the book.  I really do not blame him.  I enjoying comparing the movie to the book as I watch. And most of the time I'm let down to home much is left out. At least with the book I get the full effect.

A good book to me is a book that makes you feel the characters emotions so well, that you cry, smile, or your pissed off at the world. Ha Ha. But yeah, those are good books to me.

Dear John

Snow Patrol "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" from Dear John

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I do not know how many of you have read the book or seen the movie yet, but there has been a lot of support out there for the movie. I have read the book, but have not seen the movie. I loved the book and really can not wait to.

The song they have for it "Set Fire to the Third Bar" by Snow Patrol fits the movie so well. I'm sure it will be the theme song for ever long distance relationship, as well as military couple out there. I can't stop listening to it.  I just thought I would share it with you. Below are the lyrics. Enjoy.

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths Jobby that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

 (Thank you to Sing356.com)