Tickets!

One step closer to going to the Caribbean! I have booked my tickets! Wow. This just makes the whole thing so much more real! My feelings are saying: "Hold on, hold on, hold ON there. Wait...WHAT? I am REALLY going to the CARIBBEAN?? To work with HORSES?!? Are you nuts?" My subconscious obviously still hasn't moved out of that shocked stage into the looking forward to it stage. It still feels a little crazy. Oh well... I think I will leave my subconscious to figure that one out in peace.

In the meantime, I can talk more about books. I have finished the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy, and I liked it almost every bit as much as the first. I mean, if you set out on reading the first one, you can almost be guaranteed to want to read the other two, which are just as thrilling to read (at least number two is).

As of today, I am the proud owner of a box set of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. I am looking forward to reading them all, but it will still be a while till I do that since there are many other books in front of them in the queue. One of them is another book I bought today, The Forge of God by Greg Bear. Hank Green made a video recently where he said he would be reading this, so I thought I could have a go at it too. I also bought Nation by Terry Pratchett today, also recommended by Hank Green. So after I finish the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy, I think I will read the Forge of God.

As you can probably understand, I have plenty to do, and I am still working on Emma. That one is going a bit slow at the moment, but I am in no doubt that I will finish it at some point.

Number of books read: 2
Number of pages read: 976 (I thought it would be fun to count this too. The mathematical of you can then follow how much progress I am making on new books)

PS: If you don't know who Hank Green is: Google him or search YouTube.

PPS: Happy New Year! Even though I said it in the last blog post. Oh well. There can never be too much happiness in a new year :D