Wonderful world of books!

I love to read, but I do so in big bursts and then I won't touch another book for months. For the past few weeks I have devoured one book after another. First I read Kate Gosselin's new book. That was a guilty pleasure read. I think I read that one looking for gossip, oh that sounds terribl. But it was really sweet letters to her children. She did not bad mouth her husband once and she recognized that she was to blame in many situations.

Next I read The Happiness Project. I enjoyed this one a lot. It's one woman's project to find happiness in her life in one year. I could relate with a lot of her thoughts and feelings and today as I was having a bad kind of day, I remembered her saying that it takes so much less energy to just be angry and lose your temper than to be happy. You really have to put forth an effort to not let off steam and let the little things go. I tried to put that into perspective for my afternoon, to laugh a little more, frown a little less.

I am currently reading a new book by Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song. I won't disclose any information about this book because it is new fiction and there is a movie out. But in typical Nicholas Sparks fashion, I have teared up several times already. There is one hospital scene that took me right back to a familiar place. I guess seeing a loved one in the hospital is the same for most people. So why is it such a lonely experience? Why don't more people talk about it? The expectations on our society makes me crazy sometimes!