In two weeks I will be moved into my new apartment.
The reading thing is going well. In the past week I have successfully re-read both Ella Enchanted and Just Ella. Surprisingly, I think I enjoyed Just Ella more. This is surprising because Ella Enchanted used to be one of my absolute favorite books EVAR. It was still amazing, but I feel like Just Ella had more substance. They were both at much lower reading levels than I remembered. Not neccessarily dissappointing....just interesting to notice. I'm glad I read them again. They truly are wonderfully entertaining books...no matter how old you are.
Now I'm in the middle of Briar Rose. I've had it for years and years. I just never got around to reading it. The front cover reads, "A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is 'heartbreaking and heartwarming." So I'm thinking, "Oh...it's a modern Sleeping Beauty." Nope. I was wrong. It's so much deeper than that. It's a Holocaust story. Weird, huh? Not so much. The connections so far are actually quite fantastic. I'm only 85 out of 239 pages in, but I'm already blown away by the author's analogy between the fairy tale and the tragedy. I'm curious to see where it goes from here.
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