Eye candy.

Sigh.  I try to make a joke, which I think is quite clever, and nobody gets it.  Robert Pattinson played the role of Edward Cullen in the movie Twilight.  See, a girl named Bella falls madly in love with Edward who is a vampire — to the point where she wants to be turned into a vampire, or basically die, so she can be with him forever.  Hence, “Robert Pattinson — he’s to DIE for.”

Make fun of me all you want, but I will say that almost every female I know has at least read the first book in the series…

Here’s a bit of eye candy for you all:

Robert Pattinson as Edward

Robert Pattinson

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Our literature says it all.

I’ve been reading a lot lately.  Shocking isn’t it?  It would be if you knew me in college.  I read at about a rate of 20 pages per hour unless it was a textbook.  Then it was more like 10 pages and hour, which REALLY sucks when the assignment is “read pages 1-150 by tomorrow” and you’re the kind of person who thinks they need to read every word.

Yesterday, I found myself standing in the bookstore looking at the wall of recent popular books.  It suddenly all made sense why other countries hate Americans.  Here’s what I was looking at:

X Rated Blood Suckers
Wife For Hire
The Gift of Fear
Gastronaut
100 Words That Make You Sound Smart
Deceptively Delicious
The Sharper Your Knife The Less You Cry
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?

…. Exactly.

Here are a couple books that I recently finished and recommend reading:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (read it soon — it’s supposed to come out as a movie) and Life of Pi by Yann Martel (you just gotta get past the first 85 pages… trust me, it’s well worth it).  Oh, and Twilight, which led to an intelligent conversation between me and my sister-in-law about whether we would rather date a vampire or a werewolf…

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