WOOOOHOOO I AM SO EXCITED PEOPLE!!!!!! I HAVE THE BESTEST WEEK EVER COMING UP!!!! Whew sorry about the excessive caps but I am so EXCITED!!!!!! I get to see everybody and I mean EVERYBODY this week. We start with finishing our wrapping and packing tonight (along with some liquid Christmas cheer if you know what I mean, nudge nudge wink wink). Tomorrow we meet up with awesome friends K and L and co and head out for more Christmas cheer in the form of our favorite winery
Cobbler Mountain Cellars which not only has the best Northern Virginia wines, but treats us like royalty, seriously if you ever get a chance stop in or look them up they are awesome. Back home to do the most important part of packing...the books! I have reserved two hours for this very delicate process.
Up and at em early early early on Sunday to head to the Midwest where under one teeny tiny roof we shall gather the WHOLE clan. Yep we will have Mamma, Daddy, Me, Hubbin, lil bro and wife, lil sis and family (including hubby, lil G and baby L), and baby sis and hubby and whoever else happens to stop by. This is the first time the whole clan has been together since baby sis wedding years ago. I am totally excited and a wee bit apprehensive as we tend to get very..um..loud when we are all together. After an all to short visit we head south to visit Momma and Pappa J, the Hubbins folks. Very excited to see them and have some quiet down time on the farm. I haven't been to the farm in winter in forever and love the calm peacefulness it evokes. As if all of this amazingness were not enough my sweet Hubbin goes and sweetens the deal by getting me what promises to be the coolest book ever for my trip. It is simply called
S. It is if nothing else a beautiful looking book that has an interesting and very cool sounding premise, here is what the back cover says.
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.
Only my Hubbin could find a book to intrigue me this much, seriously it is all I can think about and am debating abandoning (temporarily) the books I am reading now to dive into this unique book...or I can just use the 35 hours I will be in the car and the three days at the farm to read as much as humanly possible. Ok enough rambling. I will probably not be doing a whole lot of posting next week. I will try and pop up some updates when I get the chance. Other wise be prepared for an onslaught of ramblings, updates and some holiday goodness when I get back. Happy Reading Everybody!!!!!
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